[perl #27304] [PATCH] move libnci.def out of root directory

[Will Coleda via RT]

Can we get a ruling on this? I tend to agree with the statement "Random build files do not
belong in the root directory".

The patch has been un-ACK'd for nine months at the moment.

> [mcha...@vendian.org - Tue Mar 02 03:49:32 2004]:
>
> Steps:
> (1) move ./libnci.def to ./src/libnci.def
> (2) apply patch
>
> Patch updates ./config/gen/makefiles/root.in and ./MANIFEST with the
> new location.
>
> Why? Random build files do not belong in the root directory.
>
> Why src/? libnci.def is used to make a libnci.dll from src/nci_test.c,
> so src/ seemed an appropriate place to put it.
>
> Knocking out bit rot,
> Mitchell
>
>
>

[Bernhard Schmalhofer]

Will Coleda via RT wrote:
> Can we get a ruling on this? I tend to agree with the statement "Random build files do not
> belong in the root directory".
>
> The patch has been un-ACK'd for nine months at the moment.

While we are at it, shouldn't we rename 'libnci.so' and 'libnci.def' to
'libnci_test.so' and 'libnci_test.def'. The library isn't used for NCI
support, but for testing NCI support.

CU, Bernhard

>>
>>Steps:
>> (1) move ./libnci.def to ./src/libnci.def
>> (2) apply patch
>>
>>Patch updates ./config/gen/makefiles/root.in and ./MANIFEST with the
>>new location.
>>
>>Why? Random build files do not belong in the root directory.
>>

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[Leopold Toetsch]

Will Coleda via RT <parrotbug...@parrotcode.org> wrote:

> Can we get a ruling on this? I tend to agree with the statement
> "Random build files do not belong in the root directory".

There's a stricter rule too (IIRC proposed by Nick or Jarkko). No build
files in the Parrot tree, because this prevents a shared (possibly r/o)
source tree.

Configure.pl --build-dir=xxx

with a reasonable default inside the tree would be better.

leo

[Leopold Toetsch]

Bernhard Schmalhofer <Bernhard.S...@biomax.de> wrote:
> Will Coleda via RT wrote:
>> Can we get a ruling on this? I tend to agree with the statement "Random build files do not
>> belong in the root directory".
>>
>> The patch has been un-ACK'd for nine months at the moment.

> While we are at it, shouldn't we rename 'libnci.so' and 'libnci.def' to
> 'libnci_test.so' and 'libnci_test.def'. The library isn't used for NCI
> support, but for testing NCI support.

Yep.

> CU, Bernhard

leo