FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: clean makehdimage

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Now that I think about it, could it be that Jam hits a BeOS limit?
> > Specifically, the open FD limit?
> From what I've seen it shouldn't. The only files opened are Jamfiles 
> and 
> source/header files while header file scanning. From the first 
> category 
> only as many as recursively included should be open at a time and the 
> header scanning is done sequentially. Searching for targets in 
> directories 
> is also done sequentially. So, unless there's an FD leak, the FD 
> usage 
> should well fall within the limit.

Hm, the default limit is 128 FDs, and we have almost 800 Jamfiles in 
our repository - the limit at least could be touched. In any way, I 
think it's close enough to think about it :)

> > That would make a very simple
> > explanation for this misbehaviour, and would be simple to fix as 
> > well.
> Definitely an interesting idea. I'll look into it when tackling the 
> build 
> system.

Great, thanks!

> [...]
> > > I think the build gurus among us should try and fix those "out of 
> > > the
> > > box" compile problems, or new developers might be alienated.
> > Indeed. Just like the full build under Linux :-)
> Yep, will do that. For sake of small turnaround times I intend to do 
> as 
> much as possible of the build system restructuring under Linux.

Very nice, just make sure it'll also keep working on R5 :-)

Bye,
   Axel.