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

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:28:20 +0100

François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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

Hm. That could be useful.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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