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From: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
To: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>,
	Vladimir Mezentsev <vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com>
Cc: YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gprofng: 30700 tmpdir/gp-collect-app_F test fails
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:38:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a21ff18b-0b1a-4aca-104e-68e0b49bfe5e@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lee9yly0.fsf@gentoo.org>

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 within the 
source tree or with a separate build tree. Some projects like GCC discourage to 
build within the source tree and recommend building in a separate build tree. 
There is no restriction where the build tree can be located. In the past I have 
seen some issue when specifying the build tree relatively to the source tree, 
but in general it's the same to configure the build tree with a relative path or 
an absolute path. Now if you have a separate build tree, then the source tree 
should not be modified, there is no restriction to create a sub-directory for 
the build.  This works for ages, i.e. dpkg based packaging has no other choice 
than using the root of the source tree for builds, and that works for at least 
27 years.

Matthias


  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-18  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-03 20:33 vladimir.mezentsev
2023-08-17  4:22 ` YunQiang Su
2023-08-17 18:44   ` Vladimir Mezentsev
2023-08-18  2:11     ` YunQiang Su
2023-08-18  5:01       ` Vladimir Mezentsev
2023-08-18  5:09         ` YunQiang Su
2023-08-18  5:10         ` Sam James
2023-08-18  6:38           ` Matthias Klose [this message]
2023-08-18  6:45             ` Sam James
     [not found]             ` <f4c4c9956ccb5bc55fe95f51ee858e3558aa6acbe8d0d0ca0e8716bafbc1fbab@mu.id>
2023-08-18  6:49               ` Sam James

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