[OE-core] [PATCH 15/16] distro: Add separatebuilddir.inc

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 22 March 2013 00:21:52 Richard Purdie 
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 23:54 +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > On 21 March 2013 16:55:14 Richard Purdie
> > <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > Going forward its going to be useful to separate build data from 
> source data
> > > in those autotooled projects which support it. Unfortunately there is a lot
> > > of breakage so for now, this starts the creation of an opt in list which
> > > we can iterate over enable more recipes over time.
> >
> >
> > This does not yet seem to cover the 'O=' family, right?
>
> Correct. autotools seemed like the best place to start with that and the
> trick I mention above with the configure checksum change is only
> currently enabled there anyway.
>
> We could extend this to other places if it makes sense although I'm not
> sure how many O= recipes we have...

There are not that many I suppose, yes (Linux, Busybox, uClibc come to 
mind). Thing is that the later two would be nice to have, IMHO..

I'll keep it in mind.
Cheers,


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