On Dec 17, 2007 2:16 PM, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What makes the .platform file necessary separately from the ecosens1.target > file? Could the ecosens1.target do it all somehow?
The .platform file is for ncc (and mig and ncg). The .target file is something used by the Makefile-based build system for TinyOS, and contains things unrelated to what ncc needs/wants (e.g. information on how to reprogram motes). Ideally at least there should be no duplication between the information in a .target and .platform file... Merging the two files is, to me at least, a bad idea: - If all the .platform stuff moves into .target: you can't build anything without using the "magic" build system. This would be like if gcc wasn't usable without some magic very large Makefile. - If all the .target stuff moved into .platform: this would hardwire specific programmers, preferred compilation flags, etc into ncc. David Gay _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
