On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 07:24:58PM +0000, Björn Ketelaars wrote: > On Tue 13/02/2018 20:01, Landry Breuil wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 06:37:47PM +0100, Björn Ketelaars wrote: > > > Diff below brings potamus to the latest version. While here add > > > SEPARATE_BUILD=Yes to Makefile. > > > > What is it with this ? I see you're adding it to Makefiles, is there a > > particular reason for it ? If it's *better* generally, then maybe a > > (much larger) task would be to switch it by default and only set it to > > no for broken ports.. > > It has some advantages, and testing it while working on a port is cheap. > From https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html: > > - If the port can build with object files outside its source tree, this > is cleaner (many programs using CONFIGURE_STYLE=gnu can), and may help > people who mount their ports tree on several arches.
You still can. Just use a local partition for your objdir. > - This can also spare you some effort, as you will possibly be able to > restart the cycle at configure most of the time. I agree with Landry. I don't like to start adding this to ports unless this is required. Now, if we want to make it a default, than fine, someone starts the effort... -- Antoine
