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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Make it a grimoire library called build_dir with a mk_build_dir function 
with the first argument being the directory to create, defaulting to 
"build-$SPELL-$VERSION".  Also it could have a rm_build_dir function 
that grabbed a global var SEPARATE_BUILD_DIR set by mk_build_dir and 
cleaned it out:

BUILD:
mk_build_dir &&
default_build

INSTALL:
default_install &&
rm_build_dir

Once the grimoire library stabilizes, it can be moved into a sorcery 
module if it's common and useful.  This allows you to test it in the 
grimoire, overlap the grimoire code with the sorcery code, and then 
remove the grimoire library code overlap a while later.  Otherwise, 
you'll have integration issues with sorcery being a different version 
than the grimoire.

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 06:08:19PM +0000, 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?
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Treeve
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