Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes:
> 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 $(DSOSUF), a following "make
>>>>> distclean" or "make clean" will find all the files and delete it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Including all the files in the .git directory!
>>>>
>>>> If you only use out-of-tree build, you are safe here. Maybe we should no
>>>> longer support in-tree builds. Personally, I nearly never use them.
>>>
>>> Same here. Building in-tree is calling for trouble. I'd support a
>>> patch that prevents it.
>>
>> What about disabling it only when .git/ is available?
>
> The other idea that's been suggested in the past is to
> have the makefile/configure simply map attempts to build
> in-tree into 'create builddir and build in it'. This
> is probably easier to suggest than to get right in all
> situations :-)
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
all:
%: force
@$(MAKE) -C bld $@
force: ;
