On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:41:00 +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:11:40AM +1000, Brian Havard wrote:
>> >Some of these platforms are probably already broken with the new
>> >gen-build changes since build-outputs.mk doesn't know about $(OSDIR).
>>
>> Yeah, I noticed the build was broken on OS/2, tries to compile
>> dso/unix/dso.c.
>> So how do you test for the platform in python? Obviously gen-build.py's
>> get_platform() needs some work...
>
>I think the {platform} thing in build.conf in general needs some work...
>
>> The script also needs to be smarter in that the OSDIR is optional, falling
>> back to unix if there's no OSDIR (EG apr/memory) which doesn't happen if I
>> simply change get_platform() to return "os2".
>
>Really gen-build.py needs to create a build-outputs.mk which is
>appropriate for all platforms which use configure & Makefile, with an
>OBJECTS which uses $(OSDIR) and $(DEFAULT_OSDIR) as determined by
>configure (though since DEFAULT_OSDIR is a constant for the Unix build
>system that could be eliminated).
Ah yes, I was forgetting that gen-build.py's output needs to work on all
platforms, not just the one it's run on so its get_platform() won't help.
I'll have a look at it if I get some time though I don't know much
python...
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