On 21/02/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Hindess wrote: > > > > However, I think it's actually a good idea to do more to distinguish > > the files that come from the two zip files anyway - for instance so > > that people don't edit them and have changes clobbered by the next > > make. So I had a go at unzip'ing them to zlib/dist and fdlibm/dist > > respectively. (This has the added advantage that it is easier to > > maintain svn:ignore properties for two directory entries than for the > > dozens of files they contain individually.) > > I agree -- can you send the ant script / makefile changes via JIRA please?
Done. > > On Linux this was straightforward since GNU make supports VPATH. I'm > > not really familiar with nmake on Windows but when I tried the same > > syntax it failed. Does anyone know what options we might have for a > > similar fix for Windows? One option is moving to GNU make on Windows > > but that's a relatively big step? > > How about changing references to foobar.obj to dist/foobar.obj in the > windows makefile? I know is is not quite as cool as VPATH, but then we > can lay out the files in the same way while we continue the discussion > of sharing multi-platform code. Agreed. > > I'd like to help completing this tidying up and the related exercise > > of determining appropriate svn:ignore properties (so you don't *have* > > to do "ant clean" before using "svn stat"). > > I'd like you to help do that too ;-) ;-) Submitted to JIRA. Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.
