Re: Regression when building static libraries with MSVC

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:51:40 +0200, Bram Moolenaar
<[email protected]> wrote:

[... reason for C_BUILDLIB_ACTION/CXX_BUILDLIB_ACTION patch ...]

>Ah, yes, that's where it came from.
>
>It's a bit of a puzzle, especially because I can't see how
>C_BUILDLIB_ACTION would ever be used.  I think it isn't.  After all,
>when building a library your input is object files, not C files.
>
>I think the original problem that Lars ran into is that the default
>recipe uses this:
>
>    defer_var_names = ["BUILDLIB_ACTION", "{buildlibaction}"])
>
>This means that the BUILDLIB_ACTION variable is checked before the
>buildlibaction attribute on the object files.  I think that's the wrong
>way around: the attribute should be preferred over a global variable.
>
>What the change from Lars did was simply remove the BUILDLIB_ACTION, so
>that the buildlibaction attribute would be used.
>
>I'll switch the order of the defer_var_names and undo the change that
>Lars made.  Then it should be tested, because I'm not very sure this is
>the final solution!

Sounds good, I'll test this with MSVC. I don't have D installed, so I
can't see if that is broken.

-- 
Be seeing you.



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