Out of tree builds with waf?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 05/11/2020 18:22, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 05/11/2020 18:16, Andrew Butterfield wrote:
>
>>  I'm not a waf expert, but might this section in their book help?
>>
>> https://waf.io/book/#_fundamental_waf_commands 
>> <https://waf.io/book/#_fundamental_waf_commands>
>>
>> Can variables `top` and `out` in the example there be manipulated to 
>> do want you want?
>
> Yes, the --top and --out options works somehow, but I get a warning 
> like this:
>
> Waf: Entering directory 
> `/home/EB/sebastian_h/src/rtems-source-builder/tmp/build/sparc/erc32'
> CWD /home/EB/sebastian_h/src/rtems-source-builder/tmp is not under 
> /home/EB/sebastian_h/src/rtems, forcing --targets=* (run distclean?)
>
> Also the documentation says "Though Waf may be called from any folder 
> containing a /wscript/ file,", so I am not sure if this is really 
> supported what I am doing.

What works is something like this:

./waf configure --out $PWD/tmp/xxx/build

called from the source tree. However, this has some side-effects.

1. A .waf* directory is created in the source tree (this is an issue 
with a read-only source tree).

2. Waf somehow remembers this configuration. You can call "./waf" to 
build it. So, there must be some hidden state in the source tree. This 
is not really an out of tree build. You cannot have multiple independent 
build trees.

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