Problems with ALT_OUTPUTDIR in debug build

[Kelly O'Hair]

Your final paragraph I think is the answer:

   "In my eyes, the cleanest solution would be if ALT_OUTPUTDIR would be honoured
    "as is", as the output directory for everything we built, without anything
    appended to it. So the developer should be free to choose whatever he wants as
    the output directory. And there should be no additional directories created."

The ongoing problem has been how to make this work in all cases.
But I'm all for it.

The generally accepted default for an output directory has been a ./build or
./dist directory at the top of the source tree you are building.
With corba, jaxp, jaxws, langtools, hotspot all being independently buildable,
what exactly are you recommending to fix this?

-kto

Volker Simonis wrote:
>>> Any comments if this is the right way to do a debug build?
>> If it works it's fine. I usually just run 'make debug_build', does that not work?
>>
> 
> It works, but it has the problems that I detailed in my first mail.
> Did you also read that one?
> I may seem that my second mail contained the solution for the first
> one, but that's not true, its justa partial workaround for the problem
> described in the first one:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2008-January/000669.html
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Volker