Re: [Tack-devel] Prime Mover commands

[tim k. <gt...@di...>]

At 8:01 PM -0400 7/31/06, tim kelly wrote:
>At 7:15 AM -0400 7/31/06, David Given wrote:
>>> 3)  As another feature request, can the cache directory no longer default
>>> to a "." directory?  Sometimes I forget the cache directory is hidden, and
>>> while at least with OpenBSD "ls" does automatically -a, not all systems do.
>>
>>Put:
>>
>>pm.intermediatecache = "path"
>>
>>...in your pmfile. (The ACK config.pm does this.)
>
>This did not work for me, unfortunately.
>
>./.pm-exec-macppc: stdin:71: Attempt to write to new global intermediatecache
>stack traceback:
>        [C]: in function `error'
>        stdin:71: in function <stdin:70>
>        lib/libsa/pmfile:12: in function `c'
>        stdin:937: in function `include'
>        pmfile:16: in function `c'
>        stdin:1524: in main chunk
>        [C]: ?
>
>The local pmfile:
>
>local o = OBJDIR.."lib/libsa/"
>
>pm.intermediatecache = o

I did some digging into the pm script in the Subversion web interface and
found that this perhaps should be pm.intermediate_cache_dir, which seems to
give the desired results.  I have an error occuring regarding not finding a
file, but I think that is something I've done, as I did get a .o file and
an INDEX file in the new directory.

I really like the INDEX principle, by the way.  I do a lot of "objdump -d"s
on object files, so having something that caches the builds allows me to
compare changes between flags (like -On) much easier.  It also underscores
the need for being able to change the intermediate cache directory, so that
instead of all of the cached object files going into a single directory, a
shadow object file tree can be constructed for easier traversal.

thanks,
tim

Gregory T. (tim) Kelly
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