Mentions separate build directory for website work

Mentions separate build directory for website work

[Graham Percival, 2012-04-27 08:49:09]

http://codereview.appspot.com/6092045/diff/1/Documentation/contributor/websit...
File Documentation/contributor/website-work.itexi (right):

http://codereview.appspot.com/6092045/diff/1/Documentation/contributor/websit...
Documentation/contributor/website-work.itexi:81: Note that the website will fail
to build if you do not build it
Everybody *should* be building it in a separate directory, but I still consider
it a bug that it doesn't work in the same directory.  Is it just missing a mkdir
-p or something like that?

[mike7, 2012-04-27 15:01:23]

On 2012/04/27 08:49:09, Graham Percival wrote:
>
http://codereview.appspot.com/6092045/diff/1/Documentation/contributor/websit...
> File Documentation/contributor/website-work.itexi (right):
> 
>
http://codereview.appspot.com/6092045/diff/1/Documentation/contributor/websit...
> Documentation/contributor/website-work.itexi:81: Note that the website will
fail
> to build if you do not build it
> Everybody *should* be building it in a separate directory, but I still
consider
> it a bug that it doesn't work in the same directory.  Is it just missing a
mkdir
> -p or something like that?

I think the problem is that it tries to do a blanket copy of everything from the
misc directory into the target directory, but if the build is not in a separate
build directory, then there will be "out/" in misc, which is a directory.  If
there were a sort of "lazy" copy command (i.e. a copy that just failed silently
on directories instead of crashing) then it could be used instead.

[Graham Percival, 2012-04-28 07:10:11]

On 2012/04/27 15:01:23, mike7 wrote:
> I think the problem is that it tries to do a blanket copy of everything from
the
> misc directory into the target directory, but if the build is not in a
separate
> build directory, then there will be "out/" in misc, which is a directory.

Sounds like it could use an --exclude, then.  Or a more explicit listing of
files in misc/.