[openbeos] Re: Build changes
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:26:41 +0200 CEST
Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2005-08-21 at 14:30:32 [+0200], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> > Right, I did not think of this very common case either. Having a
> > full
> > debug build is often not quite what you want, you usually only
> > compile
> > those parts with DEBUG you're currently working on; otherwise
> > system
> > output could get way too noisy.
> > Any idea about that?
> Actually yes. I plan to introduce a central place for customizing the
> build
> (in the OT locale kit build system it's build/UserBuildConfig). Among
> others you will be able to set the DEBUG variable at least per
> directory
> (could be hard doing that per object file), which will cause the
> concerned
> targets to be placed in a different directory. Pretty much what
> Andrew did,
> with the difference that the build system "knows" where a target has
> been
> placed. makehdimage will go away or at least be generated by the
> build
> system (only some fragments like the generation of the MIME DB might
> remain
> as scripts).
That sounds good, although it doesn't help in all cases, namely:
1) we have some scripts that directly execute binaries from the distro
/... tree, ie. "rc", "haiku_app_server", ...
2) there are usually symlinks from ~/config/lib/ to some libs like
libopenbeos.so or libhaikuappserver.so to be able to run apps under R5
in the test environemnt
At least the second item could be solved by having those apps in a
dedicated output directory (that would be "test" right now), and also
have the libs put in there so that they are found.
I also have a couple of scripts that update only a certain component on
either a target partition or image - very handy and time saving.
> > The only one that comes to my mind is to introduce another variable
> > that lets you override the target directory for those components,
> > ie.
> > somelike like either:
> > $ DEBUG=1 TARGET_TYPE=release jam
> > or:
> > $ DEBUG=1 RELEASE_TARGET=1 jam
> If I understand you correctly, that would force the targets to be
> misplaced
> in the release directory although they were built with debugging?
Yes, that would allow makehdimage and other scripts to behave correctly
for now (until the build system is changed).
Bye,
Axel.
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