[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/3] pkg-cmake: allow to build package in a subdirectory
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Mon Mar 9 23:19:11 UTC 2015
On 09/03/15 22:05, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Gwenhael, Samuel,
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:03:19 +0100, Gwenhael Goavec-Merou wrote:
>
>> +* +LIBFOO_BUILDDIR+ may overload the default build directory when a
>> + package prevents from in-source-tree build. For example,
>> + FOO_BUILDDIR = $(FOO_SRCDIR)/.build, will be used to compile foo
>> + package in .build subdirectory.
>
> Is it really useful to be able to define the path to the build
> directory? I believe we could do something simpler that consists in
> just a boolean variable saying that the package does not accept
> in-source build, like:
>
> LIBFOO_SUPPORTS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD = NO
>
> (which would default to YES)
>
> and then the CMake package infra takes care of doing the build in some
> $(@D)/buildroot-build/ directory, or something like that.
Or build in a subdirectory unconditionally...
Regards,
Arnout
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