[ros-dev] RBuild woes...

[Alex Ionescu]

Alex Ionescu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is my beef with rbuild. I can't fix most of these as I don't have 
> the skills/knowledge of rbuild.
>
> 1) Project link flags are applied at the end of the command 
> line...this makes -Wl optimization flags not work.

Not fixed yet.

> 2) DBG = 0 and GCC 4 creates a load of new warnings that weren't there 
> before. For example, I can't build ntoskrnl anymore. This is because 
> it's detecting "uninitialized variables" which are actually being 
> initalized by the macros themselves (see mm/pe.c and elf.inc.h). This 
> did not happen before rbuild.

FIXED.

> 3) Strip isn't being executed for dbg = 0 anymore... I can add it but 
> I have no idea how to make it dbg = 0 only.

Not fixed. The ntoskrnl binary is 1.3MB instead of ~500KB. Due to #1 and 
also because strip -x isn't being executed.

>
> Not sure:
> 4) Is the OPTIMIZED envirovar still taken into account? I didn't seem 
> to see so.

Fixed (well, looks like we won't be supporting it, I don't mind)

>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu