Preventing building inside the source directory

Thorsten Zachmann t.zachmann at zagge.de
Sun Jan 16 05:33:01 GMT 2011


On Saturday, January 15, 2011 15:43:12 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")

+1

Thorsten



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