If I grok what you are asking.... .... it would be nice if win32, too, would support VPATH builds with a --srcdir like argument - and throw it's generated files in another directory tree.
Did I get the point? This seems doable. Bill At 12:44 PM 2/6/2004, you wrote: >William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >>At 09:44 AM 2/6/2004, Aryeh Katz wrote: >> >>>In the 1.3 environment I was able to use the --shadow configure option to use the >>>same source tree for multiple os's. This was quite valuable, as one source code >>>change was needed for all platforms. >>>However, the --shadow option is gone in 2.0. >> >>.... >> >>>That's why there are two source packages, windows and UNIX. >> >>Actually that's not the reason. The two reasons are: >>1. line endings; msvc and msdev studio hate several files with unix line endings >> and either fail all together (nmake makefile) or produce erroneous results >> (emitted diagnostic line numbers from .c source files etc.) The win32 package >> uses srclib/apr/build/lineends.pl to mop text files from one to the other form. >> Unless you are using a linux toolchain, or working on a volume that supports >> two views of the same file (e.g. Cygwin 'DOS' mounted unix volumes) this >> issue seems that it would continue to plague you. >This might be the issue *nix to windows. I was having trouble the other direction. >After my windows builds my *nix builds were toast. >>2. build files; this shouldn't be a hassle for you, it simply includes generated >> win32 exported makefiles and makefile dependencies from .pdb projects, along >> with the awk result .rc version files. These aren't present in the >> Unix build, and are honestly not required to build the project if you use >> Visual Studio later than version 5. >Actually, this was exactly my problem. >apr.h, apu.h and a whole bunch of other files were generated by windows (and at least >I couldn't get it to clean up). Once those header files get included by the *nix >packages (despite the fact they have working apr.h etc in their own tree), the >sources won't compile. >-- >Aryeh Katz >SecureD Services >http://www.secured-services.com/ >410 653 0700 x 2
