[haiku-development] Re: Removing legacy build platforms and -nostart
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:35:20 +0100
On 20/11/2012 22:32, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 08:26 PM, Joseph Prostko wrote:
> [...]
>> libroot wouldn't build due to this. I found a way to make GCC accept
>> -nostart (basically making an alias to -shared), but do we really need
>> -nostart in build/jam/MainBuildRules anymore? I would think by now we
>> can simply replace it by -shared, correct?
>
> AFAIK both should be interchangeable.
Actually there is a little semantic difference, but well, since we
implement them identically anyway...
>> If so, I was wondering if while we're at it, we can remove BeOS as a
>> build platform in our configure file.
>
> I would be surprised if you could actually still do so. In any way,
> Haiku is a much better build platform, as BeOS was unbelievably slow
> building Haiku. So yes, let's get rid of it.
I was probably the last one to ever make a full build in BeOS, ZETA
actually, and that was quite a long time ago ;-)
François.
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