FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: One small step for net team, but... but onesmall step forward?

[Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Philippe Houdoin wrote:

> Small changes on the net team front.
>
> RECENT CHANGES DONE:
[...]

> PENDING CHANGES:
>
> a) make the userland stack debug platform run ASAP.
>
>   My main focus. So that we could see internal code running/crashing,
>   learn how it (expect to) works, understand it, and then make
>   it really works as expected. Or dump it and rewrite it.
>   Hopefully, only partially.
>
>   As a net_server is already there, and build, it's mostly
>   a matter of building network modules as userland add-ons too, now.
>   From same source code.
>   What I'm trying at home is, for each module, to symlink all source code
>   into corresponding directory under src/tests/add-ons/net_server at
>   build time (RelSymlink jam rule?), then build with the "Addon" rule
>   a userland add-on, without forgotten to link it against our net_server,
>   which exported the module API and some other KernelExport.h stuff expected
>   by our network modules code.
>
>   Unfortunnatly, currently:
>   - I couldn't manage to (re)create the symlink at build time
>   *before* running the "Addon" rule on them.
>   Please, Jamfile guru(s), help me! :-)

I don't think it is a good idea to generate anything in the `src' subtree.
But I suppose, you simply want to make jam find the respective source
files. This can be done by adding their directory to the search paths for
source files, like:

  SEARCH_SOURCE += [ FDirName $(OBOS_TOP) src foo bar ] ;

CU, Ingo