On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 08:30 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > In principal I agree completely, however in practice at least 20-30% of the > packages I try won't deal w/ the B/S separation properly.
So what I did in my most recent build system[1] is: 1) Default to srcdir != builddir 2) Tag modules which don't support that See: http://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/build-api.txt If a module doesn't support srcdir != builddir, I simply copy the source tree to the builddir. This is can be a confusing trap from a developer perspective; I've caught myself editing the copied source files, and then had them blown away during a build. But in general we should pressure upstreams to support srcdir != builddir, because the benefits are great and the drawbacks small. It'd be awesome if you guys considered having the bitbake autotools class implement the same semantics. [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-ostree/tree/src/ostbuild/pyostbuild/builtin_compile_one.py#n132 _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core