Re: [Monotone-devel] cannot drop non-empty directory during branch update

[Zack Weinberg]

On 9/19/07, Chad Walstrom <address@hidden> wrote:
> Can you use a source dir/build dir style development to get around this?
> autoconf and automake, for all their warts, do this very well.

GCC can't be built except in a separated build directory setup, and
the *other* fun part is making sure that the normal build process
never writes to the source directory (people actually use unwritable
source directories with GCC builds) but nonetheless the in-repository
generated files get copied back to the source directory.  Oh, and then
there's the generated files that aren't in the repo but are in the
tarball...

It's all a big nuisance and really "no generated files anywhere in the
repo *or* the tarballs" would be better, but that's not the world
we've got.

zw