-----Original Message----- From: art yerkes [mailto:ayerkes@speakeasy.net] Sent: 28. marts 2005 14:07 To: ReactOS Development List Cc: ch@csh-consult.dk Subject: Re: [ros-dev] feature request for (xml) build
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:01:34 +0200 "Casper Hornstrup" ch@csh-consult.dk wrote:
This is already implemented, but make is giving us a lot of trouble. The semantics of the last modified time on non-FAT volumes (eg. NTFS and EXT2) is to be updated once an entry within the directory is created or changed. We have generated files depend on their parent directories so we can make sure the parent directories exist before putting files in them. This, unfortunately, causes spurious rebuilding of targets and even looping during build. I have patched make to always use the creation time instead of the last modified time for directories. This works, but it will unfortunately require a custom make unless we can find another solution.
In my old bootstrap makefile I used a special target to make all directories first. I think it's a reasonable solution.
I don't like the consequence that you need to remember to do a "make directories" before a "make" after each "svn up". That doubles the number of steps to do after an update.
Casper