feature request for (xml) build

[Hartmut Birr]

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

[Klemens Friedl]

>   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. 
You can use the export fucntion in your svn
client and export the
"trunk\reactos" directory.

Klemens Friedl

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[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com [mailto:[e-mail]] 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

[art yerkes]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:01:34 +0200
"Casper Hornstrup" <ch(a)csh-consult.dk> wrote:

>   
>  
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com [mailto:[e-mail]] 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.
>   
In my old bootstrap makefile I used a special target to make all directories
first.  I think it's a reasonable solution.

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[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: art yerkes [mailto:[e-mail]]
>  Sent: 28. marts 2005 14:07
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Cc: ch(a)csh-consult.dk
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] feature request for (xml) build
>  
>  On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:01:34 +0200
>  "Casper Hornstrup" <ch(a)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

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
> Casper
>  Hornstrup
>  Sent: 28. marts 2005 13:41
>  To: 'ReactOS Development List'
>  Subject: RE: [ros-dev] feature request for (xml) build
>  
>  
>  
> >   -----Original Message-----
> >  From: art yerkes [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >  Sent: 28. marts 2005 14:07
> >  To: ReactOS Development List
> >  Cc: ch(a)csh-consult.dk
> >  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] feature request for (xml) build
> >
> >  On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:01:34 +0200
> >  "Casper Hornstrup" <ch(a)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 
Actually, rbuild currently generates some files in the source directory. I'd like
for it to generate them in the intermediate output tree instead. To do that, rbuild
needs to create the directories, not make. This will mean that you would have to pass
the ROS_INTERMEDIATE and ROS_OUTPUT variables to rbuild instead of make. A consequence
of this is that you need to run rbuild to change ROS_INTERMEDIATE and ROS_OUTPUT
locations, but this is not a big problem IMHO.

Casper