Re: Build process

Thanks for the replies. I have no prior experience with virtual
machine development, so I'm still learning, reading papers, and
studying the source code (not quite the target audience for this
mailing list, I know ;-).

Thiago Silva wrote:
> Not sure. I don't think the build uses this Makefile at the moment
> and, AFAIK, there is no primdeffilter in the repository to generate
> prims.src. So, I guess we are sticking with the prims.src in the
> repository, for now.

Right, the prims makefile is not used currently (and cannot be,
because there is no primdeffilter that we know of -- thanks for
confirming this). It just felt a bit uncomfortable to have a sort of
"black spot on the build process map". I remembered the posts about
makedeps, and thought that the tool might be lying around somewhere at
Sun or so, and could be released.
However, as far as I can see all the files involved are human
readable, and should be possible to edit by hand or, should the
situation arise, come up with a script to automate the text
processing...

Dave R.:
Gradually improving the includeDBs while working on the source code is
probably the way to go. What I did was basically include in each .hpp
file only the absolutely necessary headers to get this .hpp to compile
by itself (under VC++). This often resulted in lots and lots of
compiler errors in other .cpp files, which I then resolved by simply
adding any required header to the .cpp. This way I got each header to
compile by itself, but the .cpp includes are a mess. Cleaning those up
would be considerably more work, I guess. Not sure if it's really an
improvement over makedeps after all, when done this way, so I didn't
look into this any more. Maybe I'll do another Perl script to extract
the include info from the source files to build a includeDBs (hope I
still have them around).

Anyway, it's great to know that GNU/Linux porting is under way and
making progress!

Oliver


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