Re: Separate build and source directory?

[Falko Braeutigam <falko@smb-tec.com>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> Why does ozone not support separate directories for building and source?

There is no particular reason. It seems that just nobody found the time to
actually implement a better solution.

Using the -KS option might be a good workaround. This would allow to use the
"native" compiler (and its options, including path settings) of your environment
to compile the proxies.


Falko

> The opp help says:
> 
> % $OZONE_HOME/bin/opp -h
> Ozone Post Processor
> usage: opp [-ks] [-st] [-p<pattern>] [-ni] [-nc] [-q] [-h] [-o<directory>] 
> [-odmg] class [class]*
>     -ks       save the generated source files
>     -KS       save the generated source files; do not invoke compiler
>     -st       print stack trace
>     -p        regular expression to specify update methods
>     -ni       do not search interface code for update methods
>     -q        supress output of any messages
>     -o        out/input directory for class files and sources
>     -odmg     create proxies for the ozone ODMG interface
>     -nc       do not create code needed for direct invokes and 
> ClientCacheDatabase
>     -version  shows version information
>     -h        shows this help
> 
> 
> Note the line "out/input directory for class files and sources" here. I 
> can't separate them. Until recently I compiled the proxies into the source 
> and afterwards cleaned up the mess using some moves.
> But I updated from java 1.2 to 1.3 (I guess it's this switch that made the 
> difference, I updated the whole system) and now this workaround doesn't 
> work anymore because opp doesn't include the current directory (.) into 
> the classpath (that's where my *.class-files are, the source path is 
> specified using the -o switch), so some required classes aren't found.
> My IDE requires *.java and *.class files to be separated (and I like this 
> approach).
> 
> What should I do? I could compile those *_Proxy.java-files manually, but 
> that's an even greater workaround than my older one.
> 
> andy
> on Mac OS X (BSD-like) / Java 1.3
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