[RQt-devel] building out of source tree

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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 ...
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> That's probably a good idea. Personally, I wouldn't have the patience to
> rebuild the smoke stuff every time, even with the help of ccache.

Yes, which is why I had recently taken to having a second checked out
copy for building.

I see the change now, building happens in separate -build directories
within the source tree, not inside src/.

-Deepayan

>> > 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?
>>
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> We're making changes that we could eventually submit as patches upstream.
> It's just that upstream seems not attentive enough at the moment, and they
> might not agree with all the changes. But in my mind, of course, they're
> improvements.
>
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>> -Deepayan
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