Re: [cdt-dev] CDT Build - What does "Updating Project..." actually do?

[Sean Evoy <sevoy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad,
Assuming MBS and the GCC toolchain,
the build is post-processing the source-level dependency files (.d files
that are generated at build-time for make). In order to support the 2.X
GCC compilers which did not have a full set of dependency-generating flags,
the makefile generator has to go over the generated '.d' files and make
sure that all dependencies on header files are also specified as targets
with no pre-reqs. For example:

foo.o: foo.c ../includes/foo.h /usr/include/stdio.h
...

../includes/foo.h:
/usr/include/stdio.h:
...

If this is not done, the make will fail
the next time it is run and a header file is not where it is supposed to
be. If you are running the GCC 3.0 or above, it actually has flags that
generate these dummy targets for the header files automatically. I can
walk you through the process of changing the makefile generator to take
advantage of them. The post-processing step becomes a NOP at that point.

Sean Evoy
Rational Software - IBM Software Group
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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All,

Some of our users of the CDT are complaining about poor performance.  Well,
there are many contributors to this, but one in particular is a post-build
delay. After the makefile has been built, the build continues to run for
a
while with the "Updating Project..." message.  What is it
doing?  With some
of our projects, even if trivial builds, this can take 30 seconds or longer
(granted, there are a lot of files in the project).

For this particular project, there may be 500 C/C++ files, but only a
handful are used for the build.  There are likely thousands of files
total.
These files are coming from a linked resource.  It is a standard make
project.

If I can determine what is occuring at this time, I can begin to eliminate
bottlenecks (is it the network, the CM system, etc?).

Thanks,

Chad Barnes
Rockwell Collins, Inc.

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