a few short observations on latest BB

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 1:32 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > Isn't there a known issue that our dependencies require a "make clean"
> > whenever switching between configuration to insure the binary rebuilds in
> > the intended manner, or is that fixed?
>
> i explicitiy did a "make distclean" in between builds to make sure i
> didn't have any build contamination issues between each test.
>
> i'm not trying to make a big deal out of this, i just wanted to
> understand the effect of choosing to build a "Feature complete" shared
> library and i just don't see how this works.
>
> if someone wants to provide a sample session of builds that
> demonstrates what is supposed to happen, i'd be happy with that.
> until then, i guess i'll just go off and RTFS for now.

The explanation I heard earlier was that "feature complete" links together all 
the .o files that were produced, but that doesn't mean it causes extra ones 
to get built from *.c files that aren't currently selected.

I didn't say this was useful behavior. :)

> rday

Rob
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