Preventing building inside the source directory

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Sat Jan 15 14:48:15 GMT 2011


On Saturday 15 January 2011, Cyrille Berger Skott 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")

I am all for it!

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org



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