vmarsy on C++ depot build tool

Seems cool!

Anyone knows if the "everything for your project must be contained within a single directory root" constraint can be tricked using symbolic links?

rachelbythebay 11y

I've never tried symlinks but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The key is that "foo/bar.h" needs to be readable with cwd == "src". If whatever filesystem you have will make content appear there, it should just work.

Having just tried it... sure, it'll work. Starting in my "depot" dir...

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    $ mkdir /tmp/hn
    $ echo 'int main() { return 0; }' > /tmp/hn/hn.cc
    $ ln -s /tmp/hn src/hn
    $ bb hn/hn
    I1106 144900 4720 build/dep.cc:591] Compiling: hn/hn
    I1106 144902 4720 build/deptracker.cc:184] Linking: hn/hn
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 u g 7364 Nov  6 14:49 bin/hn/hn
    $ bin/hn/hn
    $ echo $?
    0

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