From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2455 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2012 16:16:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 2443 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2012 16:16:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:15:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 966661C66A4; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id j2Ymm5izBqaQ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611431C65E4; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66AAB145616; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:05:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Mark Kettenis , palves@redhat.com, yao@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Fix in-src-tree builds by making gdbserver/gnulib/ a separate library (a la libiberty, etc.), and adding ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR. Message-ID: <20120418161528.GG2852@adacore.com> References: <4F8E860F.8050906@redhat.com> <20120418092859.GA5887@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8E949E.1000702@redhat.com> <20120418123254.GA11744@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8EB632.6050501@redhat.com> <20120418125144.GA12372@host2.jankratochvil.net> <4F8EBBA6.10507@redhat.com> <20120418154041.GA17262@host2.jankratochvil.net> <201204181603.q3IG3tbr019919@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20120418160913.GB18303@host2.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120418160913.GB18303@host2.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00596.txt.bz2 > Just copy it locally. For example 1000 times, even without filesystem > automatic deduplication. > > Engineering time is much more expensive than some disk space nowadays. > This is why new projects no longer support such extra features like > out-of-src-tree builds. This doesn't work when you are making incremental changes that need to be tested across platforms. -- Joel