[platform-swt-dev] Building libraries - Suggestion

["Dean Roberts" <Dean_Roberts@xxxxxxx>]

Tom has sent in this suggestion for building native libraries as part of the build process.

I thought I would send this to core and swt lists since the SWT team builds most of the libraries in Eclipse and the core team is now responsible for the pde-build process.

I think Tom's suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

...Dean...

Tom Tromey <tromey@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-releng-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 24/10/2002 17:48 Please respond to platform-releng-dev

To:        platform-releng-dev <platform-releng-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>         cc:                 Subject:        [platform-releng-dev] Build suggestion

For our internal builds, we need to be able to rebuild all the native
code when we build the java code.  This is a consequence of how we
build the operating system and the fact that we want to be able to
build Eclipse into an OS release.

Right now there's no simple way to do that.  The .so files are checked
in to the repository, etc.

I'd like to propose adding a new `build.native' target to all the
build.xml files.  Then the top-level build.xml could invoke this
target in every plugin directory.  In many directories this would be a
no-op; in others it would invoke `make' as appropriate.

This wouldn't have to be done for the eclipse.org builds, so it would
mean no process changes there.  It would just be a feature for folks
in our position.

Would this be acceptable?  If so I'm happy to write a patch to
implement it.  (Or more precisely a first stab, as I have no way to do
some of the builds.)

Tom
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