[gdal-dev] nmake.local on windows builds

[Tamas Szekeres]

Frank,

While I'm not sure about what changes you intend to do here, I would
emphatically disagree removing the current approach with the ability of
setting the full path to the external configuration file from the nmake
command line. My build system is higly depend on this setting and if we
don't have any compelling reason I would like to avoid relocating this
custom file (which is anyway generated dynamically) into the gdal source
tree.


Best regards,

Tamas



2011/2/11 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>

> Folks,
>
> Some time ago Tamas added a mechanism to nmake.opt (the central include
> file for windows MSVC nmake based makefiles) so that you could provide
> an extra definition file on the commandline.
>
> eg.
>  nmake -f makefile.vc EXT_NMAKE_OPT=mynmake.opt
>
> While this is useful, expecially in cases where it is desirable to
> have several build configurations out of one tree, I never used it.  I
> always just adding "!INCLUDE nmake.osgeo4w" or "!INCLUDE nmake.frank"
> at the beginning of nmake.opt and put my definitions in that new file.
>
> With Kirk's recent introduction of a complicated nmake.opt file for the
> MrSID driver, I've learned that you can check for the existance of a
> file in an nmake !IF EXISTS directive, and I have incorporated use of this
> in nmake.opt to pull in "nmake.local" if it exists.
>
> So going forward, I'm hoping the default way of tailoring windows builds
> will be to create an nmake.local file overriding definitions from
> nmake.opt.
>
> Best regards,
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