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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Treeve Jelbert wrote :

> several software packages reccommend creating a build directory first and 
> to 
> do something like
> 
> mkdir build
> cd   build
> .../configure
> make
> 
> 
> in most cases configure accepts the standard options
> 
> 
> t would be useful if this situation could be handled by default_build
> 
> mkdir build
> cd   build
> default_build BASE=../
> 
> or even simply
> 
> default_build BUILD_IN=builddir
> 
> so that builddir was created automatically
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Erm why would this be usefull... I mean I don't see any use in this since we 
do wipe
the dir after the build... and I don't much care to have my /usr/src clutered
with 2 dirs/spell.
Only good thing about this that I can see is for building the same app without
clobering any of the sources and such i.e. making it clean...

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