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SubjectRe: [RFC/CFT] Separate obj/src dir
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > Based on some initial work by Kai Germaschewski I have made a
> > working prototype of separate obj/src tree.
> >
> > Usage example:
> > #src located in ~/bk/linux-2.5.sepobj
> > mkdir ~/compile/v2.5
> > cd ~/compile/v2.5
> > sh ../../kb/v2.5/kbuild
>
> [SNIPPED...]
>
> I have a question; "What problem is this supposed to solve?"
> This looks like a M$ism to me. Real source trees don't
> look like this. If you don't have write access to the source-
> code tree, you are screwed on a real project anyway. That's
> why we have CVS, tar and other tools to provide a local copy.

It can be really nice to maintain a bunch of different architectures at
the same time from the same tree. It also makes it really easy to
"clean" a tree.

On the other hand, I do wonder whether ccache could be used to get the
same effect. Sam?
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