[webkit-dev] Re: Who's working on merging GNUmakefile.am and DerivedSources.make?

Sylvain Pasche sylvain.pasche at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 21:34:35 PST 2008


Alp Toker wrote:
>  * Built object files are scattered throughout the directory hierarchy, 
> resulting in svn stat noise.

You can avoid this by using a separate objdir, when doing something like:

mkdir objdir
cd objdir
../autogen.sh
make

This way you get all the .o files inside your objdir.

There a small fix needed to make this possible when using autogen.sh 
(http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16736).


Sylvain



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