MokoMakefile disabling of "svnnow" and new force-rebuild target

michael at michaelshiloh.com michael at michaelshiloh.com
Thu Mar 1 01:33:41 CET 2007




On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rod Whitby wrote:

> I have modified MokoMakefile to disable the "svnnow" functionality
> (which rebuilds all openmoko-specific packages every time you build),
> and have added a 'force-rebuild' target to the Makefile which lets you
> do the same thing, but at a time of your choosing.
>
> Whether or not you agree with the OpenMoko core dev's decision to use
> the "svnnow" functionality, this now gives you the opportunity to have
> stable builds (which only rebuild daily from SVN rather than every time
> you start a build), but also force a rebuild of everything that would
> have otherwise been marked as 'svnnow' (the force-rebuild target reads
> the preferred-versions file to work out the specific set of packages to
> clean).
>
> There is a whole other debate about the "svnnow" functionality itself,
> and whether or not it is appropriate for external devs, or whether or
> not it is the "correct" way to use OpenEmbedded.  I'm not going to get
> into that debate, as I can see both sides of the debate as having valid
> viewpoints for different situational requirements.

That's a great feature. Thanks.

Last night I had compile errors while compiling one of the PIM applications, I
think the calendar. I didn't have time to look into the cause, but I wonder if
this is that what motivated your new feature?

Michael



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