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Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system

Author David James <james82 at gmail dot com>
Full name David James <james82 at gmail dot com>
Date 2009-02-03 17:12:10 PST
Message On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp at elego dot de> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:06:15PM -0600, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> > Julian Foad wrote:
> > > Well, isn't the proper solution to use "make" to do this job, instead
> of
> > > a manual step in "autogen"? (This is about re-making a target file from
> > > a source file if it's out of date or doesn't yet exist, which is
> exactly
> > > the purpose of "make".) Is there any reason this step needs to be done
> > > so early in the build process?
> >
> > Not a deal breaker, but gen-make.py will complain if the referenced
> header file
> > doesn't exist. That's why I put this step in autogen.sh before
> gen-make.py is run.
>
> So gen-make.py complains about something that is not a problem?
> If so, making some fix to gen-make.py was not an option?
>
> I'd also think having make sort this stuff out, if at all possible,
> is a better solution. It's more portable.


gen_make.py only complains about a header file being missing if gen_make.py
doesn't know that the file is built by 'make'. Adding the header file to
'private-built-includes' in 'build.conf' should resolve the issue and allow
you to generate the header file normally using make.

Cheers,

David
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Fwd: Possible bug in build-system markphip Mark Phippard 2009-02-03 07:25:39 PST
     Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system "Hyrum K dot Wright" <hyrum_wright at mail dot utexas dot edu> "Hyrum K dot Wright" <hyrum_wright at mail dot utexas dot edu> 2009-02-03 07:38:12 PST
         Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system julianfoad Julian Foad 2009-02-03 07:59:40 PST
             RE: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system rhuijben Bert Huijben 2009-02-03 08:06:35 PST
             Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system christianfischer Christian Fischer 2009-02-03 08:55:22 PST
                 Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system julianfoad Julian Foad 2009-02-03 12:52:07 PST
                     Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system "Hyrum K dot Wright" <hyrum_wright at mail dot utexas dot edu> "Hyrum K dot Wright" <hyrum_wright at mail dot utexas dot edu> 2009-02-03 13:06:20 PST
                         Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-02-03 15:03:07 PST
                             Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system "Hyrum K dot Wright" <hyrum_wright at mail dot utexas dot edu> "Hyrum K dot Wright" <hyrum_wright at mail dot utexas dot edu> 2009-02-03 15:06:38 PST
                                 Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-02-03 16:03:12 PST
                                     Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-02-03 16:16:39 PST
                                         Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-02-04 09:31:51 PST
                                             Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-02-04 09:45:02 PST
                                                 Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system stsp Stefan Sperling 2009-02-04 10:10:02 PST
                             Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system David James <james82 at gmail dot com> David James <james82 at gmail dot com> 2009-02-03 17:12:10 PST
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