[BusyBox] [RFC] build system change: support building in separate directory

egor duda deo at corpit.ru
Thu Sep 30 15:14:10 UTC 2004


Erik Andersen wrote:
>>The patch is still incomplete ('make check' doesn't work for example),
>>but i plan to finalize it as soon as possible.
> Very cool.  If you can finish things off quickly I'm feeling
> inclined (after careful testing) to apply such a patch...
> Having pristine source builds is very much worth the risk,

Ok, here's an updated patch.
'make check' should work now, and one make creates Makefile in build 
directory, so one can run 'make' in build directory after that.

One possible caveat is that if we build in some directory other than 
source one, the source directory should be 'distclean'ed first.

egor
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