[PLUG] Compiling Packages: Which Directory?

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Paul Mullen wrote:
> Just to clarify: I don't mean that FluxBox cared where it's source tree
> was located, but rather that it didn't like my trying to have the source
> tree in one directory, and going through the build procedure in another.
> Making the package right there in its source directory produced no
> problems at all.

The ONLY package that I can recall doing funny things with source/build
trees is GCC... and I've built thousands of packages.

J.
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