From: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:49:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/4] libgit-sys: add symlink to git repo root and clean after build
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In-Reply-To: <03110f30-54e8-49c4-86bc-f4c0f5641f41@gmail.com>

On 2025.03.20 11:10, Phillip Wood wrote:
> Hi Josh
> 
> On 19/03/2025 22:23, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> > On 2025.03.18 16:24, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> > 
> > I'm currently working on an alternate solution where we build the object
> > files in Cargo's working directory, rather than in the source tree. This
> > will (mostly) avoid the need to clean after the build. I hope to send a
> > v2 with this change in the next few days.
> 
> Meson has builtin support for out-of-tree builds which would make building
> in Cargo's OUT_DIR trivial. Our meson build is still experimental though so
> you may not want to rely on it.
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Phillip

Thanks for the pointer! I have a working Makefile solution which I'll be
sending out soon, but I'll keep meson in mind as a backup if the list
doesn't like my V2.