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From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
To: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gprofng: 30700 tmpdir/gp-collect-app_F test fails
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:45:38 +0100
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Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:

> On 18.08.23 07:10, Sam James via Binutils wrote:
>>> Is it legal to create a build directory inside a source tree?
>>>
>> No, the source tree should be treated as immutable please. It's ok
>> to create directories within the build dir, but not the source tree.
>
> you are confusing things.  In general you have the option to build

I don't think I am. I just took the question to be generally about
whether you can modify the source tree. If the build tree is within
that, then it doesn't really count modulo the issue you mention below.