[haiku-development] Re: question on planned build system feature -- 'generated' folder naming scheme

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:07:19 +0100 CET

> I'm seriously considering modifying the build system , specifically
> how the generated folder is handled.
>
> There are two distinct features planned :
>
> 1st, I'd like to allow a configure argument to override the default
> location of 'generated/'
> eg  ./configure --generated-dir /somePath/generated-x86-gcc4
> ( or maybe just /somePath and use the 2nd idea for determining the
> actual generated folder name )
>
> 2nd,  As default,  use the target platform name and gcc version as
> part of the name for generated.
> eg:
>   generated-x86-gcc2
>   generated-x86-gcc4
>   generated-ppc-gcc4
>   generated-m68k-gcc4
>

Can profiles allow overriding "generated/" anyway ?
I currently rm generated; ln -s generated.x86 generated


François.

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