Re: Improve prep_buildtree

On 30.07.25 10:28, Nazir Bilal Yavuz wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 at 11:07, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> To fix this, I first tried to devise a way to detect whether a given
>> directory is a build directory. But that seemed pretty complicated.
>> Instead, I chose the simpler solution that we just enumerate the source
>> subdirectories that we know about (config, contrib, doc, src). That way
>> we can also remove the special handling to exclude the .git directory
>> and make the find command a bit simpler.
>
> Meson looks for ${builddir}/meson-private/coredata.dat file to
> understand if the directory is a build directory [1]. I am just
> wondering if you tried this and found it complicated or did you try
> something else.

I tried things along this line, but it's not easy to have a shell "find"
command handle that kind of logic.