[OE-core] RFC: Separate build dir for autotools

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 17:09 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 03:41:11PM +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 24 February 2014 15:27, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Can we start by adding
> > > include conf/distro/include/seperatebuilddir.inc
> > > to
> > > conf/distro/defaultsetup.conf
> > > ? so that more people start using it and possibly report issues in their
> > > builds?
> > 
> > That list is opt-in and mainly covers oe-core, so this gets tested
> > every time the YP autobuilder does a world build.  We need a meta-oe
> > world build where autotools.bbclass sets B="${WORKDIR}/build": it's
> > literally just this one-line patch.
> 
> But doesn't cover oe-core built with different combinations for
> PACKAGECONFIGs, .bbappends etc, so including this file in
> defaultsetup.conf can still reveal few issues in oe-core recipes.

Patch out for testing, I'll merge it if nobody objects...

Cheers,

Richard