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Re: [cdt-dev] Rebuilding managed build project on properties change

On Monday 02 October 2006 20:52, Sennikovsky, Mikhail wrote:

Hi Mikhail,

> You are right, the tool-chain options changes themselves do not result
> in a full rebuild. This was done intentionally. My assumption was that
> the tool-chain options are not the build options themselves, i.e. not
> used by makefile generation, etc. Instead they are used to
> initiate/perform a [simultaneous] change of some build options (e.g.
> tool option values, build environment, build macros, etc.).
> That is why no full rebuild is initiated by the tool-chain option
> change. Instead it is expected that the proper rebuild state will be set
> by the build settings change initiated by the tool-chain option
> modification (e.g. via a tool-chain option value handler).

I'm not quite sure how this is going to work. Say I have a global option "CPU 
type" -- that affects compiler, assember and linker. When this option 
changes, I can't just modify options for those compilers -- since after 
restart I won't be able to tell if a given compiler option was explicitly set 
by the user, or automatically changed by this global option.

So, the other alternative is to from GnuMakefileGenerator and modify it so 
that it adds extra    command line options to tools, depending on the values 
of the global options. Or I can specify commandLineGenerator for my tool. 
But in both cases, I don't see how change of global option will cause a 
rebuild. 

Or probably, in ValueHandled for the global option I should call 
setRebuildState for all affected tools?

- Volodya


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