[ros-dev] feature request for (xml) build

[Casper Hornstrup]

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