[fragmede]

Define build script.

I definitely shouldn't have to check out my source to a specific path like /home/coworker/projA in order to compile it. That's just wrong. But the contained output, a .rpm or .deb puts libs in /usr/lib, binaries in /usr/bin; some path that's hard coded, and totally should be.

[rockhymas]

You're totally right on the path to the source code. The build scripts, as typically run by a developer, should actually do two things: 1) build the code into binaries and 2) deploy those binaries on the developers machine so he/she can easily test it. Builds on official build machines shouldn't be putting the builds into the hard coded location, and so shouldn't do the second thing. I haven't started discussing the difference between build scripts and deploy scripts, but that's essentially the difference I'm referring to here.