[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev51670 - in headers/build: config_build config os/kernel os

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:49:14 +0100

On 12.12.2017 01:29, waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


82bffcc3a75c: headers/build: Reunify BeBuild.h and related cleanup.
Now that we do not target BeOS and also do not include the main headers
   directory when building "build" binaries, we can drop the separate
   config_build directory and thus also the separate BeBuild.h, and just
   ..-include the regular one.

The existence of the config_build directory doesn't have to do with support for BeOS. It exists because on Haiku we need to include config/ headers from the host (which we'd hide by using the same directory name), since we directly use libroot functionality from the host. Obviously this isn't an issue when the respective aspects of the Haiku you build on and the version you build don't differ, but the point is that we want to be able to build on Haiku even across changes to those aspect.

That being said, ideally our build tools wouldn't use any host functionality (headers, library) at all -- then we could simply build the host tools from the unmodified Haiku source -- but at some point we need to interface with the OS. Unfortunately at the moment our approach is rather mix-and-match and therefore fairly brittle. I've been wanting to improve that for ages, but it's a really big task.

CU, Ingo

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