Re: [RFC/CFT] Separate obj/src dir

From: Kai Germaschewski (kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 15:50:13 EST


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> I think all you did was increase the compile time by writing
> output files to different directories than the ones currently
> in cache. There are a lot of negatives. It would be a shame for
> you to waste a great deal of time on something that would not
> be accepted into the distribution. Remember the earlier `make modules`
> where the new objects went into a separate directory with sym-links?
> That got changed. I think it got changed for good reasons.

Well, this isn't necessarily for everybody, if it's of no use for you,
that's okay. Note that the patch doesn't (unless it has bugs ;) change the
normal behavior at all. It really only adds a script to set up a separate
objdir. If you don't want that, don't use that script ;)

--Kai

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