Re: [ptp-dev] Toolchains - purpose and usage

[Chris Recoskie <recoskie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What you quote is partially true for sync projects.  If you support managed projects though it's used for far more than just scanner discovery and it basically drives the entirety of the build process (what tools are called on which files in what order, how the contents of the generated buildfile are created, etc.)

For remote projects it also influences environment variables... if you don't pick a remote toolchain you will get variables from the local machine, which will be incorrect.

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Chris Recoskie
Team Lead, IBM CDT and RDT
IBM Toronto

Beth Tibbitts ---06/10/2013 07:49:18 AM---Is this accurate? I'm writing up an introductory create-a-project part of the ptp help for kepler,

From: Beth Tibbitts <tibbitts@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Parallel Tools Platform general developers (ptp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx)" <ptp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/10/2013 07:49 AM
Subject: [ptp-dev] Toolchains - purpose and usage
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Is this accurate? I'm writing up an introductory create-a-project part of the ptp help for kepler,
and now i'm wondering if this is accurate.

I said the following, but later i have to show them how to set remote includes so that codan doesn't incorrectly
flag alot of errors.
What *is* the toolchain used for now, in a makefile project?
(and in a managed project, just so i get all the info right.)  I'm not sure we're consistent in what we say.

"Note: toolchain information is only  used for scanner discovery in determining the location
of the include files, etc. that are used in your build - to help Eclipse find the same information
to help with editor navigation, special features, etc.
Actual build command information is taken from your Makefile."

this is in the introductory 01buildMPIprog.html in the ptp help


...Beth

Beth Tibbitts 
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IBM STG - High Performance Computing Tools
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