[Coin-discuss] Re: make target dir name

[Carl Wilburn]

I favor one directory (obj). If you need to debug vs.
regular runs, just recompile.

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> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:43:25 -0400
> From: Ted Ralphs <tkralphs at lehigh.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] interpret this please
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> Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:
> 
> > QUESTION: Right now the name of targetdir includes
> the platform and
> > optimization level. What do people think? Is this
> necessary? Should the target
> > dir simply be 'obj'?
> 
> My preference would be just a directory called
> 'obj.' If it seems like 
> people find it useful to have object files divided
> by platform and/or 
> optimization level, this could still be done by
> creating subdirectories 
> under the main 'obj' directory. However, my
> preference would be to stop 
> dividing object files by optimization level. If you
> recompile with 
> several different optimization levels, it is easy to
> fill your hard 
> drive with object files and then forget about them
> (they won't be 
> deleted by "make clean" once you change levels). Of
> course, this would 
> mean requiring the user to do a "make clean"
> manually and recompile from 
> scratch in order to change levels, so perhaps this
> is too onerous for 
> some users, but for most, it will be fine. Perhaps
> you should have a 
> flag for advance users that allows separation, but
> that is turned off by 
> default.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ted
> -- 
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
> Assistant Professor
> Industrial and Systems Engineering
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> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:48:58 -0400
> From: Ted Ralphs <tkralphs at lehigh.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] make target dir name
> [was: interpret this
> 	please]
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> Another idea while you're reorganizing things would
> be to put the source 
> files for each project in a directory called 'src'
> so that the root 
> directory of each project would be a little less
> cluttered.
> 
> Ted
> -- 
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
> Assistant Professor
> Industrial and Systems Engineering
> Lehigh University
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