[haiku-development] Re: The status of getting a compiler running

On 30/01/2008, Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > PS: If you want to play a bit more with building stuff under Haiku, I can
> > recommend installing the compiler and the headers on a second partition and
> > create /boot/develop/{headers,tools} as symlinks pointing there. Then even
> > if somethings goes wrong on Haiku's system partition, or if you use VMware
> > (building a new Haiku version always wipes the image), you don't need to
> > reinstall the compiler and headers.
> >
> >
>
> On a loosely related note, how hard would it be to make the
> update-image target be able to update everything instead of specifying
> one target at a time? Especially when building to a partition from
> Linux it'd be nice to not have to wipe the target every time.

I think that's what the HAIKU_DONT_CLEAR_IMAGE = 1 flag is for, no?

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