Re: Converting from Imake!

On Apr 26, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

>> 11) Hierarchical build from top down, or from any of the subdirs
>> without issue (preferably without strange command line args).
>
> You don't need to worry about this, just define what depends on what 
> and
> Aap will figure out in what order they need to be build.

Is that the only way?  Here is why this is somewhat problematic for me: 
  I would like to sometimes build shared, sometimes static, sometimes 
both depending on something I set in my SDDAS.aap file (I was going to 
look at the conditional build at some point here).   For us, this 
depends on the platform I am on.

If I add an "all: libant/libant.a libPromote/libPromote.a" to my 
toplevel, everything works for static.  But what about my shared which 
is defined in the main.aap of libant?  Do I have to define every target 
twice?  Once in libant/main.aap and once in the toplevel main.aap?

I was thinking, maybe I could depend on install; however, I need libant 
to build and be installed, then libPromote will work.  Right now, it 
will build libant and libPromote but they both get installed at the 
same time instead of build libant, install libant, build libPromote, 
install libPromote.  The reason why it is working now is because libant 
was previously built and installed so it succeeds.

Right now I am only working with two directories, but I have about 
fifteen I need to build in sequential order.  First be built, 
shared/static/both, installed in the right place, and the build should 
continue onward.

Does any of this make sense?  I feel like I am rambling! :-)

Thanks for the help!
Joey



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