Re: Re: [UnixOS2] libc

Stefan Neis wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:10:15PM +0200, Stefan Neis wrote:
> > > >   a) I know of no issue with 2.8.1 + dmake (but of course, this may be
> > > >   just ignorance).
> > >
> > > While I agree, the problem is that whatever new source one adds (e.g.
> > > Posix/2), it won't be happy with dmake. While mixing two different makes
> > > is certainly possible, it's also possibly confusing.
> >
> > ???  Why adding a couple of new C files would require a change of $MAKE?
> 
> Personally, I'd like at least seeing Posix/2 being added into libc. That's
> close to 300 source files ...

I think the absolute number of source files won't be the problem.
It depends more on what we want the build system should do. Compile
the sources, link the dlls, create the import and static libraries,
a reasonable test suite, separation of parts of the libc into several
import libraries, create all docs (info, man, inf, html) from one
documentation "source" files automatically, support for optional libc
feature (e.g. internationalization).

The question is can the current build system do this or can it be
implemented? If not, then it might be the better decision to create
a new build system.


Bye,
Andreas