Re: utilrb builds into source dir?

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>
> So are you saying that utilrb/master builds into an architecture-specific
> dir inside the source dir? If so then I think that resolves sharing the
> source dir between multiple architectures at the same time. But it still
> presents issues when building over a network mounted filesystem, due to the
> sudo/root-mapping problem. You frequently need to make the source dir
> world-read/write to allow a root-user-mapped-to-nobody access. I think that
> the need for sudo builds is actually driven by something outside of utilrb
> .... (Peter? Ruben?) ...
>
> Is it really standard practice to build into the source dir for gem
> packages?! Wow ...
>
Do you really have to build using sudo ?! Wow .... :P

After a quick look at rake-compiler, it would be possible to build anywhere
(we would have to expose that functionality as an argument to the rake task
though) as well as install the resulting shared object anywhere as well. It
would need some careful planning, though, to find where exactly we want it
to go :P

Sylvain

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