[tlbuild] hacking a single package

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:13:35PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
>  >|
>  >|    Why is there no mention of the Work tree on
>  >|    http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html
>  >|
>  >|I wrote that page originally to give a recipe to people building the
>  >|binaries for the TL distribution (because that's what was needed),
>  >|rather than as a guide to people wanting to do arbitrary hacking in
>  >|arbitrary places in the sources.
>  >|
>  >|Anyway, I added a mention of Work/ there now.
> 
> Thanks. I can't recall exactly when I got the dire warning ("you
> have been warned") about not building in the source tree but perhaps
> adding a reference to the Work tree might be helpful.

If you ran configure script directly, it would give you such a
warning, but if you ran it from inside a directory not part of the
source tree (like Work, which is basically what Build script does), it
will not give such a warning since this is exactly what an out of source
tree build is (the idea, I think, it to avoid polluting the source tree
with build byproducts).

Regards,
Khaled