Re: What's with the build directories?

[Julien Rioux]

Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:24:54PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > I find that in my patchy runs, I get directories
> > /tmp/lilypond-autobuild (my configured build directory)
> > and a hierarchy of "build" directories under it, possibly one per tested
> > patch (?).
> 
> nope, nothing to do with Patchy.
> 
> > ls /tmp/lilypond-autobuild/build/build/build/build/
> > GNUmakefile  local.make
> 
> That's normal.  People were asking why we have nested build dirs
> at least two years ago.  *shrug*  Patches appreciated?  I'm not
> eager to poke the build system with a sharp stick.

So I did a quick search but I'm probably not touching it either.

Lines 421, 422 of stepmake/aclocal.m4:
for mf in `cd $srcdir ; find . -maxdepth $d -mindepth $d -name GNUmakefile`; do
    mkdir -p $(dirname $mf)

recursively search for files named GNUmakefile and create a corresponding
directory in the build dir. The build dir itself contains a GNUmakefile. This
happens at each configure run (which Patchy happens to do at every patch).

Regards,
Julien