On 4/14/20 9:31 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: > Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> writes: >> My build directories are always siblings of the source directory in the >> parent >> directory. > > > It's not exactly an un-common pattern - especially if you have a lot of > build variants. Keeping them under builds makes it easier to blow the > whole lot away rather than having a messy parent directory which you > have to clean manually.
"Manual" is a bit of an overstatement. In the end there's no difference at all: it's rm -rf build* no matter the $PWD where you perform it. As for "messy", you're the one that put stuff that doesn't belong into the source directory. Mine is nice and clean. ;-) > Personally it also works better with my tooling which can slurp up all > the build directories and present me with a menu of make commands to > build from. That's not a good argument for accepting the patch though. Hah. r~
