[Zope-dev] Re: Weird test failures with DateTime

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 27 Nov 2005, at 15:49, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> The real difference now is that I used to be able to create an empty
>> directory from which to run configure and make, but now it only works
>> when you sit inside the full source tree...  So in order to do my   
>> usual
>> "pristine source tree under src/, build under opt/" I must now   
>> copy the
>> full source tree over. Annoying :/
>
> Yes, the "out-of-place" build functionality, as we unofficially called
> it, is not supported anymore. Really, I was surprised to hear that
> people used this feature so much for checkouts. After all, I  
> thought you
> want to *work* in a sandbox, not install from it or anything  
> (otherwise
> you wouldn't need a sandbox...).

Define "sandbox". For me it is not the checkout of the software  
itself, it is the built-out $SOFTWARE_HOME. It was a little easier to  
create several such sandboxes (e.g. one with Python 2.3.x, one with  
2.4.x) using the "out of place" build.

jens