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Re: [PATCH] gdb: start a gitignore
- From: André Pönitz <andre dot poenitz at nokia dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: ext Pierre Muller <pierre dot muller at ics-cnrs dot unistra dot fr>, "'Mike Frysinger'" <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:11:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: start a gitignore
- References: <1301367964-6823-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <004a01cbede5$1e157ed0$5a407c70$@muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
On Tuesday 29 March 2011 09:44:21 ext Pierre Muller wrote:
> I am not sure I understand the reason of these patches:
>
> all the listed files are always generated in the build directory,
> and gdb should never be build in its source directory
> so that you should never end up by creating those in
> a source directory.
gdb builds just fine within the source directory, and especially with git's
ability to do a proper cleanup of the source directory (git clean -dxf) there
is not much of a reason to use shadow builds (unless one really wants
to build different configurations from the _same_ source).
Andre'