Building Source Strace Source Codes

[Alangi Derick]

Ok. Understood. And also is there a project list that i can get some small
mini-projects to keep my hands on?

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2015 20:26, Alangi Derick wrote:
> >      I found out something when i built the latest version of Strace. I
> > notice that when i build the source, the object files are mixed with the
> > source codes them selves(.c files) but i thought of an idea that:
> > - When the source codes are built using: make, there should be a separate
> > folder that the object files can be generated and kept in so as to keep
> the
> > directory clean and not mixed with object files and source codes. This
> will
> > lead to ease in search of files.
> >      That is an idea i had in mind but if there is a special reason for
> > allowing the object files in the same directory as the source files, i
> will
> > like to know because i am planning on working on the build so as the
> object
> > files can be stored in a folder called:
> > strace_build which contains all the .o(binary) files generated by running
> > make.
>
> you can already do this if you want:
>  make distclean
>  mkdir build
>  cd build
>  ../configure
>  make -j
>  ./strace
>
> each method has advantages
> -mike
>
>
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