On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Guenter wrote:

> but the autobuilds *should* work completely inside the build dir? anyway,
> something with the autobuilds seems suspect to me: I always thought we do a
> complete copy to the build-xxxx dir before we start any buildconf/configure,
> but that seems not the case since I see every now and then the CVS dir
> polluted with build files left over when there were fundamental errors with
> the build, f.e. CVS down ...

Right, it doesn't copy anything. It does the equivalent of this:

  $ cd source
  $ cvs up
  $ rm -rf build
  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build
  $ ../source/configure ...
  $ make
  $ make test

So it builds outside of the source tree.

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  / daniel.haxx.se