Re: [Quickfix-developers] Building outside of source directory

[Caleb E. <cal...@gm...>]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:15:44 +0100, Joerg Thoennes
<Joe...@ma...> wrote:
> You could also use 3 copies to build it for 3 systems or just do something like
> Actually I do not understand why you need to do it this very special way.

Several reasons come to mind:

* Time.  If the code can be compiled in an external directory, Bill
could kick off all three architectures to build in parallel.
* Convention.  Most GNU tools can be built this way.  GCC specifically
comes to mind.
* Separation.  Its much easier to cleanup the build artifacts and be
sure that your source code is pristine and unmodified if you build in
a separate directory.  You can even make the sources read-only.

None of these are earth-shattering, but it might be nice if QuickFIX
supported this.  I'm another person who builds QF on multiple
architectures (only two) and frequently test patches to the code so I
frequently need to reconfigure and recompile in the same source tree. 
I would like the ability to have a separate build dir to make this a
simpler job (and one that didn't require re-configure'ing when
changing architectures).

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Caleb Epstein
caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com