Re: trouble compiling

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 05/18/2012 01:06 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 17 May 2012 23:41, Luca Citi<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > then, if you have already messed up your clone of the octave repository:
> > $ make clean
> > $ hg st -un0 | xargs -0 rm
>
> Guys, please be careful recommending commands like this without
> commentary. The last command will erase anything in your hg repository
> that isn't tracked by hg, and is in fact a reimplementation of the
> dangerous purge extension:
>
>      http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PurgeExtension
>
> I like hg's general ethos to be very conservative about dangerous
> commands, so I'd like to follow this in Octave. I don't want anyone
> losing data accidentally due to blindly following bad advice. Data is
> sacred. Be careful.
>
> Furthermore, I recommend you keep separate build and source
> directories. There should be no need to purge the hg repo if you do
> this.
>
> - Jordi G. H.

I didn't look closely.  Yes, that's not a very good idea.  One thing I 
don't like about the default build that has object code mixed in with 
source code is that "hg status" gives a big list of files when it is 
only a few I'm interested in.  Maybe as I use hg more I'll figure out 
nice ways of leaving out object files.

Dan