From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdbserver: start a gitignore
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D118D33.2070605@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101222044518.GJ2596@adacore.com>
On 12/22/2010 12:45 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> diff --git a/gdb/gdbserver/.gitignore b/gdb/gdbserver/.gitignore
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..9c94950
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/gdb/gdbserver/.gitignore
>> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
>> +gdbreplay
>> +gdbserver
>> +reg-*.c
>> +version.c
>
> I'm OK but slightly hesitant to introduce a .gitignore for files that
> are compilation artifacts, not development artifacts. If we start
> on that road, the list is possibly quite long.
>
> I believe that we should encourage people to compile GDB using
> a build directory that is different from the source directory.
> Except I don't know why I think that! :-). I know that I have been
> told that this should be the cannonical way of building GNU projects,
> and that the in-source build might one day become unsupported.
> I just know that I find it more convenient, precisely because
> it avoids polluting my source tree with such build artifacts.
>
Yes, it is not recommended to build in source dir. The patch looks
good, but not necessary.
--
Yao (é½å°§)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-22 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-15 12:33 Mike Frysinger
2010-12-22 4:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-22 5:32 ` Yao Qi [this message]
2010-12-22 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-22 14:43 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-22 18:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-23 4:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-24 2:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-22 22:05 ` Michael Snyder
2010-12-23 3:19 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-12-22 15:58 ` Tom Tromey
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