[Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Meeting in Berlin

[Sam Bobroff]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:10:35PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >From Friday to Sunday last week, a Buildroot Developers meeting was
> organized in Berlin, right after the Embedded Linux Conference Europe.

[snip]

>  - Improving the developer experience when using _OVERRIDE_SRCDIR or
>    "local" packages. Currently, since the source code is copied in the
>    build directory, the build errors and warnings refers to the build
>    directory. That's not convenient for users running an IDE, since
>    clicking on the warning or error does not bring to the correct
>    file. After much discusion, it appears that the only reasonable
>    solution is to implement per-package out-of-tree build.

Great! Will this allow the use of --delete with the rsync that copies the
source? (It would fix the problem caused by certain moved/renamed files in your
source directory when using _OVERRIDE_SOURCEDIR.)

Cheers,
Sam.