Re: Building in a separate build directory

[Helge Hess]

Andreas Hoeschler wrote:
> Thanks Helge for the info. That' s sad. How are people doing backups 
> then? Include all the object files? This is a newbie question, I know, 
> nevertheless, how can I go through a tree of project directories and 
> remove all *shared_obj* directories without having to reference each 
> *shared_obj* directory directly? I would liek to do this remove before 
> backing up sources.

How do you backup ? When using tar it's a simple

  --exclude=shared_debug_obj

or --exclude-from ...

Greetings
  Helge