Re: [PATCH] Unify OUTPATH values

Hey Michael,

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:15:51PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 12:59 +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> > The attached patch reduces OUTPATH to two possible values: unx and wnt. Since
> > it is potentially intrusive, I prefer to show it here for review instead of
> > committing it directly.
>
>       Just to check; I cross compile from unix-linux to unix-android, and
> have to have both native and remote toolchains eg.
>
> $ ls /opt/libreoffice/devel/soltools
> adjustvisibility  checkdll  cpp  giparser  inc  javadep  ldump  mkdepend
> prj  support  testhxx  unxandr.pro  unxlngi6.pro  util  winunistd
>
>       Would your change make that more difficult ?

With the patch, there would only be one unx.pro directory.

I didn't think cross-compiling could be done this way; in my mind, separate
git clones were used for each destination platform.

> [ admittedly the names are
> highly non-intuitive, and hard to write when explaining to others, and I
> don't believe the parallel .pro / non-pro distinctions is necessary ;-)

The names are suspiciously close to 8.3 ms-dos names. Probably another dark
remnant from the past ;)

The .pro extension may not be present in all cases; iirc it disappears when
some debug options are enabled.

-- 
Francois Tigeot