[Buildroot] [RFCv2] Per-package out-of-tree build

[Diego Iastrubni]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>  * Each tarball is extracted and patched only once, even if there is
>    both a target build and a host build. Once a package has been
>    extracted and patched, its source code is changed to not have write
>    permissions, in order to catch misbehaving packages in terms of out
>    of tree build.
Nice

>  * A <pkg>_SUPPORTS_OUT_OF_TREE variable defines whether the package
>    supports out of tree build or not. By default, it's set to NO, in
>    which case the package source code is rsynced from its source
>    directory to the build directory at the beginning of the configure
>    step. It is set to YES by both the autotools and cmake package
>    infrastructures (which have been modified to do out of tree build),
>    and by some packages that use the generic infrastructure but
>    nonetheless support out of tree build.
Does buildroot support also qmake? qmake has also out of source build support.