"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
>On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> Based on some initial work by Kai Germaschewski I have made a
>> working prototype of separate obj/src tree.
>>
>> Usage example:
>> #src located in ~/bk/linux-2.5.sepobj
>> mkdir ~/compile/v2.5
>> cd ~/compile/v2.5
>> sh ../../kb/v2.5/kbuild
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>I have a question; "What problem is this supposed to solve?"
>This looks like a M$ism to me. Real source trees don't
>look like this. If you don't have write access to the source-
>code tree, you are screwed on a real project anyway. That's
>why we have CVS, tar and other tools to provide a local copy.
Having Trees read-only checked out? Having Trees on "pseudo filesystems"
backed by a SCM?
This is the same thing we do in Java Land for ages. I personally like it
buy your taste may vary.
Regards
Henning
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