Re: zsh-5.0.5-dev-1

[Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>]

Hi Peter,

it's good to see you came to the same or at least very similar
conclusions. :-)

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:39:31PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Haven't yet tested it with in-tree-building though. I'm also slightly
> > surprised that this only came up now. That commit is from January. So
> > maybe I'm still missing something else...
> 
> I think the habit of building files in a different location from the
> source isn't very frequent at the moment;

It's because we build a dynamically linked zsh (plus docs) and a
statically linked zsh and then distribute the built files into their
packages... Worked fine so far. :-)

> furthermore if one of your builds uses that directory you probably
> get the file you need.

I'm not sure to which directory you refer to by "that directory".

		Kind regards, Axel
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