[openbeos] Re: Building Haiku on linux

Hi Stephan,

I agree it's definitely not the first thing to think of when having a build
problem.

But since it only takes about ten minutes to check out the tree from my VDS,
and because a live site depends on those builds, time was of the essence.

Anyway, I'll be sure to post here in the future when I encounter similar
build problems, though, in case it's a problem with the build system, etc.
(I don't think it was; I probably just forgot to try the 1 thing out of the
other 1000 things I did try.)


Regards,
Jonathon

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[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephan Assmus
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:12 PM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Building Haiku on linux


Hi John,

> There have been times when removing just the "generated" folder hasn't
> worked for me (a week or so ago I think is when my HaikuHost builds
broke).
> All of a sudden it went from working fine to puking during the Jam.
>
> I tried a _lot_ of things, the very first of which were running "svn
update"
> on the buildtools working copy (and rebuilding them), cleaning Jam,
removing
> the generated folder, and reconfiguring the build script. Hours later, and
> all kinds of things tried, I couldn't think of anything else.
>
> But like I said, those steps are for a last resort. :)

This is a bit weird though, unless I am unaware of something. Have you done
"svn status" on the entire tree? If a file was unintentionally modified,
even
by a file system error, the modification would have to be the same for the
version of the file in the .svn/ subfolder and the original for "svn status"
not to catch it. So it is unlikely that "svn status" would not reveal the
changed something. But I'm no guru on the subject, I just wanted to point
out
that deleting the svn tree and checking it out again, which might be quite
time consuming, shouldn't be something that one thinks of first when running
into a build problem. That's like reinstalling Windows when it stops working
properly. It does fix the problem, but one is not smarter afterwards and it
took an unproportional amount of time.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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