Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry, I guess I should have been more explicit. What folks apparently do is have the sources on an NFS server mounted read-only. They then build a symlink tree onto a local read-write filesystem and run the build there. Thus they can create all the new files they want, but they can't touch or change the source files.
That works except for the imc{parser,lexer} generated files. But we could remove touching these files. When Configure.pl --maintainer was run, you probably have the tools to create these files.
Woohoo, yay delegation! :)
Seriously, I think this is a fine idea (building entirely outside the source tree, or using a symlink nest with all the base source files read-only) and I expect we're going to get requests for it, so we might as well handle it now.
I'm assuming that Andy's not got sufficient time to make this happen, so if other folks are willing to step up that'd be great.
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