Where to build

[Duane Attaway]

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Is there a "good practices" standard place to put the contents of
> tarballs when one is preparing to do a make/install of a package?  I
> generally do them off of the user's home directory, which doesn't seem
> likely.

Gentoo puts all the tarball builds in /usr/tmp/portage/ for a nice source 
tree.  And all the raw tarballs in /usr/portage/distfiles.

I used to have my tarballs cluttering up my home directory too.

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