On Tuesday 08 March 2011 21:09:46 Darrell Anderson wrote:
> When I build the packages, my build script copies all of the source files
> from my svn storage location on my hard drive to $TMP, which is located at
> /dev/shm (ram disk).
>
> I do not build the packages in the svn source tree on the hard drive.
>
> If you are saying that I cannot build the package from with the copied
> source files at $TMP, then I need some tutoring how to modify the build
> scripts accordingly. The wiki provides no such details.
>
> The process I am using is the same one I used to successfully build all the
> packages under automake.

You using in-source mode. For out-of-source follow this example:

mkdir /dev/shm/kdebase
cd /dev/shm/kdebase
cmake /path/to/source [ARGUMENTS]

You don't need to copy sources to ramdisk.

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Serghei