Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the state of the union

[Matthew Dempsky]

Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:42, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:37:59PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:21:08PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> > > Quite possibly exemplified by arch's (tla's?) New World Order-ism; I
>> > > appreciate all the benefits that arch/tla bring me, but occasionally, I
>> > > want to be able to commit from within my build tree. Not being able to
>> > > do this really, really bites.
>> > 
>> > Why can't you do this?
>> 
>> Because of the fact that I can't do so without either distcleaning or
>> changing the tagging-method? Changing the default tagging-method is,
>> BTW, hardly trivial.
>
> You shouldn't need to change the tagging method at all -- just a few of
> the inventory rules. A .arch-inventory file specifying that your
> generated files are backup (or similar) would also seem a quite
> straightforward solution.

Why's that even necessary?  Why not write some a tla wrapper script
that detects when you're running it from $BUILD_DIR/$SUB_DIR and first
cd's to $SRC_DIR/$SUB_DIR?  Or (what I've chosen to do) write a build
script that first changes to the appropriate build directory before
running any of your build commands.