objections to disallowing in-source builds in all KDE modules ?

David Faure faure at kde.org
Wed Sep 27 22:41:22 BST 2006


On Wednesday 27 September 2006 19:48, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> I still find it more convenient to work in the source tree since my primary 
> interface for building and editing is the shell it means that I don't have to 
> have one shell open for make and another one for opening up source files.  I 
> assume I'm not alone in this style of development.

You don't need two shells, you need makeobj, as Dmitry pointed out, and a few shell
aliases for switching between source and build dirs.
Full details on how I suggest you set yourself up for KDE4 development are in my akademy
presentation, which is available at http://web.davidfaure.fr

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