852199 - objdirs shouldn't be children of srcdirs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

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From bug 851270:
(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #27)
> In the ideal world, I'd say we should purge on every build just because
> we're not supposed to be putting things in the srcdir. However, we can't
> simply do this because the objdir is a child directory of the srcdir and the
> purge would remove the objdir. In my ideal world, we should move the objdir
> so it isn't a child of the srcdir.Then we can more easily clobber one or
> the other. We can also do things like mount the srcdir on a read-only
> filesystem to enforce the "no writes in srcdir are allowed" ideal. We
> /could/ exclude the objdir from the purges. However, we would need to pass a
> pattern to purge telling it what directories are object directories. Do they
> always begin with obj-*?

Comment 1

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

I think all of our automation assumes directory structure is srcdir/objdir ; this is not going to be a small change.

Comment 2

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

we're not going to fix this in buildbot