Re: [ros-kernel] Some thoughts on the source tree and build system

[David W. <we...@cw...>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:13:16PM +0200, KJK::Hyperion wrote:
>   - no support for the CodeView symbol format, only the "ancient" textual 
> symbol lists
>
Adding support for codeview to gcc/binutils would be a major project in
its own right; however gcc does generate equivalent debugging information 
which can be used when debugging ReactOS with gdb.

>   - we mix source files with generated binaries. This is messy, and 
> inflexible: how do you handle multiple different builds of some target? for 
> example "debug version for the i386 architecture, with Microsoft Windows 
> compatibility options, statically linked", "release version for the SPARC 
> architecture, with support for large files", and so on?
>
I agree this is a problem (and similarly for debug/release) but it 
shouldn't very difficult to fix, though hopefully compile time options 
can be kept to a minimum.