[Mono-devel-list] Build system

[Peter Williams]

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 20:21, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 	* We need probably help from Peter here, but I want to be able
> 	  to define at the toplevel a set of MCS flags to pass, like:
> 	  -d:CORE -d:NET_1_1, etc.  
> 
>    Thoughts?

If you're going to use make I don't think there are any really good ways
to have a variable (MCS_FLAGS or whatever) that is changable and
relevant at all points in the build tree.

For example, you can do MCS_FLAGS = -d:foo in your toplevel makefile,
and have

	$(MAKE) -C $$subdir MCS_FLAGS=$(MCS_FLAGS)

whenever you invoke make recursively, but then if you run it in a
subdirectory the variable will be blank. 

	export MCS_FLAGS='-d:foo'
	make -e

might work but then you'd need to do this every time and make -e might
have side effects.

It might make sense to move to Automake; that would propagate variables
about as well as can be done and it wouldn't be that hard to integrate
C# compilation, I think, using a few included makefiles (a la
library.make now).

Or it might be fun to write a build tool in C#... 

Peter

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