Preventing building inside the source directory

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 15 January 2011 15:43, Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there are any objections on preventing building
> calligra in the source directory ? I don't know any usecase for mixing build
> files with source files, and it is rather significant problems (including the
> risk of build files to be commited accidentally). And it is rather common that
> someone will do it by accident, so I would suggest to add the following into
> our CMakeLists.txt:
>
> MACRO_ENSURE_OUT_OF_SOURCE_BUILD("Compiling Calligra inside the source
> directory is not possible. Please refer to the build instruction
> http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/Building_Calligra")

+1

- especially that in git it's even easier to add files by accident
(.gitignore not always helps)

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