Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> writes: > 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? There seems > nothing wrong with doing one-time builds inside an extracted tarball on > central build servers;
Except for this one: in-tree build will rot even faster. > most of the problems arise when building inside > the developer's git checkout. > > If we do drop support for building in-tree (always or with Git), we > could also drop most of the .gitignore clutter. :) Bonus!
