Re: Improve prep_buildtree

Hi,

Thank you for working on this!

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.

[1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/b4d32763940ae67d1ed36952112b3d94ba9f03a7/mesonbuild/mcompile.py#L30C1-L35C82

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Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft