Re: ✘buildtmp

[Fred Wright]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Gary E. Miller wrote:

> New MR 224.  This bulids gpsd in buildtmp/ instead of in the source
> tree.  Many have requested this for a long time.  It builds, and checks,
> for me.  But still a tad ugly and a WIP.  I mention it now because this
> will confuse everyone, including me, so if you care look at it before
> any permanent changes are done.
>
> Conceptually it is easy.  SConsctruct is split into a small SConstruct
> and SConscript which is almost all of the old SConstruct.
>
> SConstruct tells scons to make a new directory, buildtmp/, and then
> proceed to run SConscript inside buildtmp/.  This uses the variant_dir
> features of scons.  Cleaning still needs to be cleaned up, but is a
> simple as:
>
>        rm -r buildtmp/

As long as one is working in a git repo, "git clean -dxf" has always been 
much faster and more thorough than anything involving scons.  There's no 
longer much value in writing that as "git clean -dxfq". :-)

> Everything runs and checks, for me.  There is some remaining ugliness in
> the tests, which is a result of existing ugliness in the tests.
>
> I also see the Debian CI pipeline failed.  I'll fix that shortly.
>
> Comments welcome, please test.

Based on a quick check, I see that "build-all check" works but "www" fails 
miserably.

Fred Wright