-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Hartmut Birr Sent: 28. marts 2005 11:09 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: [ros-dev] feature request for (xml) build
Hi,
I would like it if I can build ros outside from the source tree. This makes it possible to build ros with different configurations from the same (highly modified) source tree.
- Hartmut
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.
Casper