Re: builddir != srcdir in jhbuild breaks my workflow

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:05:49PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On 30 August 2016 at 18:23, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> > I've put the following in my jhbuildrc:
> >
> > checkoutroot = os.path.expanduser('~/gnome')
> > buildroot = os.path.expanduser('~/gnome')
> >
> > (to have again builddir == scrdir)
>
> That's not really how it's done.
>
> Just set:
>
>   buildroot = None
>
> and jhbuild will use the srcdir by default.

It's indeed better. By looking at jhbuild/defaults.jhbuildrc, there is
no way to know that.

The manual talks about the None value, but still saying that it's the
default value:
https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/config-reference.html.en

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Sébastien