[Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/branches/philikon-zope32-integration/ start cleaning out the trash; there is more...

[Fred Drake]

On 10/30/05, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> Will there be a way to keep your srcdir "pristine" by running
> "../path/to/configure; make; make install" in an empty directory?  This
> was a commonly requested feature and lots of people use it, which is why
> build-base and friends were in there.

Not with the checkout and the current zpkg.

I do consider this an unfortunate limitation in the implementation of
zpkg; some of the decisions in the implementation will need to change
to make it work differently, but I think it's really a matter of
implementation and not the basic design.

Distributions still allows all the distutils magic to happen, so
out-of-place builds should be entirely possible with the packaged
distribution.


  -Fred

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