[RQt-devel] building out of source tree

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've modified the build system for qtbase so that everything is built out of
> the source tree. This is apparently how one is supposed to perform the
> equivalent of a 'distclean' in autotools (simply delete the build
> directory). I would suggest checking out a fresh copy, so that everything is
> clean and remains so. R CMD INSTALL --(pre)clean will now clean everything
> out and build from scratch.

OK. I had been effectively doing that anyway as standard practice for
installing R packages without polluting the source---R CMD build ...
-> R CMD INSTALL ...

> As a side note, it seems we have taken over / branched the kdebindings/smoke
> stuff. This may or may not become a maintenance issue.

Do you mean taken over upstream, or making changes potentially
incompatible with upstream?

-Deepayan