[plt-dev] in-place build directory (was re: build error with svn 14677)

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On May 5, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Carl Eastlund wrote:
>
>> Quick instructions:
>>
>>  From this directory (where the `README' and `configure' files are),
>>  run the following commands:
>>
>>   mkdir build
>
> When you automate this (as I have done in some script), you may wish to do
> something like this:
>
> TARGET="build:`date | sed -e"s/ /_/g"`"
> ...
> mkdir "$TARGET"
>
> or whatever trick you know to make a unique directory.

Why?  If you want a fresh build, why leave the old "build:yesterday"
around?  If you don't, why not reuse your build directory?  This seem
like it just creates more clutter (that svn is not even set to ignore,
currently).

-- 
Carl Eastlund