Q: DSSS: Library name being prefixed with S

[Kirk McDonald]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:04:47 -0700, Kirk McDonald wrote:
> 
>> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Just out of interest, do you have any pointers, on hand, as to why
>>>>> rebuild is better than bud? It does look like bud is not being developed
>>>>> but I have not had much experience with the tools yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks ahead,
>>>>>
>>>>> Myron.
>>>>
>>>> One reason why I've started moving over to rebuild is -oqPATH.  This
>>>> tells rebuild to put the intermediate object files into the PATH
>>>> directory with fully qualified names (aka: Gregorian Notation).
>>>>
>>>> The problem with bud is that, if I remember correctly, you either put
>>>> the object files with the source files (which sticks them all over the
>>>> bloody place), or all in one directory where you can get name clashes.
>>>>
>>>> That said, bud is slightly easier to use directly from the command line
>>>> because you can have +targets.
>>>>
>>>>     -- Daniel
>>>
>>> Actually (as I recall) you can avoid the clashes by passing bud both of 
>>> -odPATH and --op (note double-dashes) which will recreate the packaging 
>>> of modules as a directory tree rooted at PATH.  Not neccessarily as good 
>>> as "Gregorian Notation" (which I still wish the compiler would adopt), 
>>> but usable.
>>>
>>> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
>> This breaks as soon as you specify any source files as their absolute 
>> path. (I forget all the details; it's been a while since I went and 
>> worked all this out.) If Bud is unable to determine a sensible relative 
>> path, it defaults to placing the object file alongside the source file. 
> 
> No it doesn't. DMD does that, not Bud.
> 

Er, you're right, of course.

>> (Which causes the usual litany of problems.)
> 
> What are these problems? I've not had them myself.
> 

Primarily, this causes issues if the source files are located in 
directories to which the user does not have write access.

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