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Re: configtool bug


On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:45:37PM +0100, J?rgen Lambrecht wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I  cannot find this bug back on 
> http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/query.cgi?product=eCos, and actually, if 
> this problem is documented, it would be no real bug, but I could not 
> find any documentation about it.
> If this is a new problem, should I enter a bug report, or update the 
> configtool documentation?
> Here's the bug:
> 
> When programming, I often keep backups in the same directory, for 
> example of the hal_platform_setup.h file, and I call those backups e.g. 
> hal_platform_setup.1-01-02_2a.h.
> But then the configtool also copies those backup files to the build tree 
> (e.g. in BUILDx_install/include/cyg/hal/) and inserts them in the 
> makefile (e.g. in BUILDx_build/hal/arm/at91/std_ims/current/makefile).
> The compilation does not give errors, but the binary (of course) does 
> not run.

Why should the binary not run? These backup header files are not used.

What you are probably seeing is the broken dependancies on vector.S
meaning that install/lib/vector.o is not recompiled when you edit
hal_platform_setup.h. This is a known bug and should be in bugzilla
somewhere.

        Andrew

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