On 27 Nov 2005, at 15:49, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
The real difference now is that I used to be able to create an empty directory from which to run configure and make, but now it only works when you sit inside the full source tree... So in order to do my usual "pristine source tree under src/, build under opt/" I must now copy the full source tree over. Annoying :/
Yes, the "out-of-place" build functionality, as we unofficially called it, is not supported anymore. Really, I was surprised to hear that people used this feature so much for checkouts. After all, I thought you want to *work* in a sandbox, not install from it or anything (otherwise you wouldn't need a sandbox...).
Define "sandbox". For me it is not the checkout of the software itself, it is the built-out $SOFTWARE_HOME. It was a little easier to create several such sandboxes (e.g. one with Python 2.3.x, one with 2.4.x) using the "out of place" build. jens