Re: [ros-dev] RBuild woes...

[Alex Ionescu]

Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>  Here is my beef with rbuild. I can't fix most of these as I don't have 
>  the skills/knowledge of rbuild.
>
>  1) Project link flags are applied at the end of the command 
>  line...this makes -Wl optimization flags not work. 
Not fixed yet.

>   2) DBG = 0 and GCC 4 creates a load of new warnings
> that weren't there 
>  before. For example, I can't build ntoskrnl anymore. This is because 
>  it's detecting "uninitialized variables" which are actually being 
>  initalized by the macros themselves (see mm/pe.c and elf.inc.h). This 
>  did not happen before rbuild. 
FIXED.

>   3) Strip isn't being executed for dbg = 0
> anymore... I can add it but 
>  I have no idea how to make it dbg = 0 only. 
Not fixed. The ntoskrnl binary is 1.3MB instead of ~500KB. Due to #1 and 
also because strip -x isn't being executed.

>  
>  Not sure:
>  4) Is the OPTIMIZED envirovar still taken into account? I didn't seem 
>  to see so. 
Fixed (well, looks like we won't be supporting it, I don't mind)

>  
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu 
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu