On 17 March 2014 18:51, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Am 17.03.2014 09:30, schrieb Markus Armbruster: >> Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> writes: >> >>> Am 14.03.2014 09:38, schrieb Fam Zheng: >>>> DANGEROUS: don't try it before you read to the end. >>>> >>>> A first "make distclean" will unset $(DSOSUF), a following "make >>>> distclean" or "make clean" will find all the files and delete it. >>>> >>>> Including all the files in the .git directory! >>> >>> If you only use out-of-tree build, you are safe here. Maybe we should no >>> longer support in-tree builds. Personally, I nearly never use them. >> >> Same here. Building in-tree is calling for trouble. I'd support a >> patch that prevents it. > > What about disabling it only when .git/ is available?
The other idea that's been suggested in the past is to have the makefile/configure simply map attempts to build in-tree into 'create builddir and build in it'. This is probably easier to suggest than to get right in all situations :-) thanks -- PMM
