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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: start a gitignore
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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'