[OE-core] [PATCH] autotools.bbclass: Add functionality to force a distclean when reconfiguring
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Sat Sep 8 15:36:25 UTC 2012
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 08:30 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> In principal I agree completely, however in practice at least 20-30% of the
> packages I try won't deal w/ the B/S separation properly.
So what I did in my most recent build system[1] is:
1) Default to srcdir != builddir
2) Tag modules which don't support that
See: http://people.gnome.org/~walters/docs/build-api.txt
If a module doesn't support srcdir != builddir, I simply copy the source
tree to the builddir. This is can be a confusing trap from a developer
perspective; I've caught myself editing the copied source files, and
then had them blown away during a build.
But in general we should pressure upstreams to support srcdir !=
builddir, because the benefits are great and the drawbacks small.
It'd be awesome if you guys considered having the bitbake autotools
class implement the same semantics.
[1]
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-ostree/tree/src/ostbuild/pyostbuild/builtin_compile_one.py#n132
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