Monthly Archives: September 2004

Do it with yourself???

With the latest commit once butter has been built using make, it can then be built usinf butter! The only slight problem is that I haven’t yet thought how to get rpath into the link for the executable, so it … Continue reading

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It builds!

Well, after much hacking about butter has now built the butter library, correctly dealing with the flex & bison conversions into the bargain. The challenge now is to get targets that depend or require each other to be a) built … Continue reading

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Where do objects go when they die?

One of the things that butter does is generate a tree of objects that eliminates the problems of collisions and allows for all objects to be seperate from their source. This is done automatically and is required as each file … Continue reading

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Target naming

When working on the previous iteration of butter, Ben mentioned that having namespaces might prove useful. As butter runs on a system of distinct “targets”, each of which has the ability to control it’s own destiny, on a large project … Continue reading

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Progress report…

Bison & flex are actually pretty cool once you get into them, though I still don’t profess to understand all the various subtleties. I’m sure the code I’ve ended up with can be improved. To get round one problem I … Continue reading

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Bison

Ben suggested a long time ago I look at using bison for the parsing of the source files, so I’ve started trying to figure out how to do that with bison. Hopefully it’ll allow me to remove all that ugly … Continue reading

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Butter website

I’ve started looking at redesigning the butter website, but it’s not the highest thing on my agenda right now The information there is mostly horribly out of date, so I need to look at bringing it up to date as … Continue reading

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Butter me up (again)

One of the projects that I started working on a while ago was butter. The aim is to produce a tool that essentially replaces make. Why? Well, as people who have worked on projects will know make and Makefiles can … Continue reading

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Argh

My car certainly isn’t new and has it’s fair share of nicks, scratches and dents, but they’re all pretty small and it still looks good (especially when it’s washed regularly!). I was a little annoyed when I returned to it … Continue reading

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Mime signatures

I don’t normally get involved in GUI code for BeOS, but from time to time I do need to do a few small things. Recently I’ve been using a replicant lodged into the deskbar to provide some needed functionality. It … Continue reading

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Holidays

Amazing how quickly a week passes! Just returned from a weeks holiday in Scotland, seeing relatives and doing the holiday maker sightseeing thing. Took quite a few pics so hopefully I’ll sort out enough time to stick them onto the … Continue reading

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Transport

On Sunday I went tup to London to see Ben and do some work on some ASF bits & pieces. Leaving home mid-afternoon the journey should have taken about 1.5 hours – well it didn’t! Silverlink Metro have to be … Continue reading

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