building langtools (extension of partial builds)

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-09-18 18:20, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Aaaargh. It would seem that "make clean" will delete source files.   
> Can I respectfully suggest that "make clean" should check if there is 
> a .hg directory, and/or that configure should warn if being executed 
> in a source-controlled directory, such as langtools.    Luckily it was 
> a toy repo!

Make clean does not work well when not using the standard layout at the 
moment. It's a known issue. Sorry about this; it's on our lists to fix.

Maybe we should have some warning about configure being executed in 
strange directories, yes.

/Magnus