This is great and I was not aware of this. Although I knew GCC and GDB builds support build directories.
IMHO, It will be helpful to other developers as well. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:37:19PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: >> > On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:26:03PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote: >> >> sorry, i didn't know builddir can be different from srcdir. >> > >> > I guess not everyone builds that way but I like to have multiple >> > builddirs so that I can easily do both Clang and GCC builds off a single >> > source tree. >> >> sounds useful. can you share a recipe in INSTALL? > > It is the same form as with every project built with Autoconf and > Automake. > > # Basic setup. > cd ovs > ./boot.sh > > # First build dir. > # > # I name my builddirs beginning with "_". It is only a > # personal convention, although I think I got it from Paul Smith (see > # http://mad-scientist.net/make/). > mkdir _build > (cd _build && ../configure && make) > > # Second build dir. > mkdir _clang > (cd _clang && ../configure CC=clang && make) > > # And then after that you can just run "make" in both directories. I > # use a simple script. > > I am not sure that it is worth describing in INSTALL, because I am not > sure that most developers want to do it. > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
