Re: Adding a bdir() function

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> > - What if the current value of $BDIR is different from the build
> >   directory in the file name?  An alternative would be to always remove
> >   the build dir from the file name and then prepend $BDIR.
> 
> What if it is? It's just a python function, not something that needs to be 
> forced upon the user. In particular, it's useful in modules. If you apply it 
> just to target names, say, then when there's already a build dir in there, 
> it's left alone. What's wrong with that?

It's not a matter of right or wrong.  Just wondering what most people
would expect to happen.  Mostly the items would not have a build
directory or a build directory equal to $BDIR.  Thus it's just for rare
cases, but I tend to try to make things perfect...

> > - Instead of checking for "build-" the locate_bdir() function can be
> >   used.  This also takes care of ignoring case on MS-Windows.
> 
> Indeed. The locate_bdir() function seems to suffer from the same
> problems you mention wrt. "build-me" - special directory names can
> break it.

Yep.  Nobody complained so far...

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