[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools.bbclass: Add functionality to force a distclean when reconfiguring

[Khem Raj]

On (07/09/12 18:15), Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 18:09 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > The key places people get bitten are eglibc and gcc so those should be
> > straight forward to test, the question is how widely to deploy this
> > initially. I think the mechanism is good, its now just a question of the
> > implementation detail.
> 
> Eglibc and gcc, at least, support building with ${B} != ${S} so it might
> be easier/quicker to just blow away the whole ${B} tree rather than
> trying to distclean it.

yeah and I think separating B from S in general has merits in long run
> 
> I imagine that most modern-ish autotools-based packages will also build
> fine in that configuration, though there are bound to be some that
> don't.  It's hard to say whether there are likely to be more or fewer of
> those than there are ones where "make distclean" fails.
> 

either way there seems to be same amount of uncertainity.

> p.
> 
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-Khem