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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Boris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I used your example project for an out of tree build (</span><a href="https://codesynthesis.com/~boris/tmp/build2/components.tar.gz">https://codesynthesis.com/~boris/tmp/build2/components.tar.gz</a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">build2-test\bld>b<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">mkdir fsdir{efg\}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">mkdir fsdir{cde\}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">c++ ..\src\efg\cxx{efg_ZZZ-t}@efg\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">c++ ..\src\cde\cxx{cde_XXX-t}@cde\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">c++ ..\src\cde\cxx{cde_YYY-t}@cde\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">c++ ..\src\cde\cxx{cde_YYY}@cde\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">c++ ..\src\cde\cxx{cde_XXX}@cde\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">c++ ..\src\efg\cxx{efg_ZZZ}@efg\<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ld cde\exe{cde_XXX}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ld cde\exe{cde_YYY}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ld efg\exe{efg_ZZZ}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And I can also build it from the src folder to the bld folder:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">build2-test\</span>src>b ./@../bld/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">mkdir fsdir{..\bld\efg\}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">mkdir fsdir{..\bld\cde\}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c++ efg\cxx{efg_ZZZ}@..\bld\efg\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c++ efg\cxx{efg_ZZZ-t}@..\bld\efg\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c++ cde\cxx{cde_YYY-t}@..\bld\cde\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c++ cde\cxx{cde_XXX-t}@..\bld\cde\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c++ cde\cxx{cde_YYY}@..\bld\cde\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">c++ cde\cxx{cde_XXX}@..\bld\cde\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ld ..\bld\efg\exe{efg_ZZZ}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ld ..\bld\cde\exe{cde_YYY}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ld ..\bld\cde\exe{cde_XXX}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Very nice!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now two little things:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>Is there a way to run a build clean from the src folder to clean the bld folder?<br>
This command cleans the src folder but tries to build the bld folder:<br>
build2-test\src>b clean ./@../bld/ <br>
info: dir{.\} is clean<br>
info: dir{..\bld\} is up to date<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]>The out of tree build output adds the @ string at the end and repeats all the subdirectories (can be become very noisy for production code). Is there a way that I could get the clean in tree build output even while doing an out of tree
build? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Max<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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