Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] SVN 24839 build failures
Maynard, Chris schrieb:
Running a distclean now. As Stephen pointed out in another e-mail, he
ran into this as well, so I'm sure it'll be resolved, especially since
the buildbot isn't complaining. On Saturday I noticed about 20+ of
these "unresolved externals" errors, but the number of errors has been
slowly coming down so I thought eventually all of them would be gone,
so that's why I waited and didn't think I would need a distclean.
Plus I hate doing it if I don't need to because it's so time-consuming.
The problem here is that there's no real dependency checking (at least)
on the Win32 build. So everytime some header file (or whatever else)
changes, the files that are not rebuild make problems. Unfortunately,
there's no easy way to change this, so everytime if you're running into
strange problems, it's a good idea to try a distclean - especially if
you did an svn update. Yes, I've noticed before that it's time consuming ;-)
BTW: the buildbot is running a distclean for every run - or to be more
precise, it's cleaning up the whole dir and do a "clean checkout" of the
svn code.
Regards, ULFL