building langtools (extension of partial builds)

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 09/19/2012 07:28 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the update.

-- Jon