[openbeos] Re: build problems
- From: "shatty" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:13:31 -0700
It seems to me that a possible solution to consider for the build
problems is to use symbolic links. To the jamfile, it would
appear that the library code is in a subdirectory, but you would
still have all of the nice properties of separate projects
in separate directories.
There is a small issue of CVS wrt symbolic links. A properly
configued cvs server will allow check in and check out of symlinks.
However, my reading is that you have to turn on some other
features too, like maintaining file permissions, etc.,
and that
may not be desirable. Another way to accomplish this is used by
some people. A file is checked into cvs called ".symlinks".
The build process (jam in this case) reads the file and makes
the symlinks if they are not already there.
I think using symbolic links also has a nice property whereby the
developers on a particular part can easily navigate to the code
that it is dependent on. This is all just a thought for
consideration. Rebuilding jam to serve may be a cleaner
solution.
Andrew Bachmann
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