FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: testing under R5

[Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Adi Oanca <adioanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Right, but that probably holds for 90% of the targets of the build 
> > > system.
> >
> > 	You know better.
> > 	IMO this can easily be changed. When building for r5 apps should be 
> > linked
> > against $(LIBBE) and LIBBE = libopenbeos.so. For haiku LIBBE = 
> > libbe.so.
>
> You'll have to update lots of applications, then, though, but I think 
> it would be worth it :-)

	Yeah, but as Ingo said "r5" has different meanings for apps, servers, 
drivers, etc.

> > > Besides, in theory a libbe.so for R5 
> > > would makes sense, if it were possible to replace the system 
> > > library (which 
> > > it isn't, I know).
> >
> > 	:-) Then there's no point for it there...
> > 	It breaks my test environment. :-)
> > 	I test the server by having app_server built in system/ not system/
> > servers/,
> > so that the lib/ be in the same directory. In there you can find also 
> > libbe.so, and
> > because of that ./app_server will not run. Deleting this file every 
> > time is annoying;
> > the other way of modifying the src/kits/Jamfile not to build libbe.so 
> > is not hard, but
> > it's not practical.
> > 	So, in the end, libbe.so under r5 obstructs ( my :) ) app_server 
> > testing.
>
>
> Why not just adopt the way we all test app server? I'd guess that would 
> be by far the easiest solution :-)

    :-) I will create a directory and make the necessary links.

Bye,
Adi.