[opensource-dev] 64 bit viewers build instructions

[Nicky Perian]

>>The autobuild feature that implicitly expands environment variables such
as $AUTOBUILD_ADDRSIZE >>appearing in autobuild.xml is relatively recent,
and we probably haven't yet covered all the cases where that >>should
happen.

As far as i can tell this happens only on 32 bit builds.


On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Nat Goodspeed <nat at lindenlab.com> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2017 1:33 PM, "Nicky Perian" <nickyperian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any idea why autobuild the looks in the wrong location for
> installed-packages.xml?
>
> ========== Build: 5 succeeded, 0 failed, 29 up-to-date, 2 skipped
> ==========
> metadata file name: autobuild-package.xml
> built Second Life Viewer version 5.1.0.41141
> installed files in installed-packages.xml
> no installed files found (C:\Users\Bill\P64\Kokua-SL-64
> \build-vc120-$AUTOBUILD_ADDRSIZE\packages\installed-packages.xml)
>
>
> The autobuild feature that implicitly expands environment variables such
> as $AUTOBUILD_ADDRSIZE appearing in autobuild.xml is relatively recent, and
> we probably haven't yet covered all the cases where that should happen.
>
> The initial implementation expanded variables right at the point when
> autobuild.xml is read, so the expansions applied EVERYWHERE. That turned
> out to be the wrong approach, since a number of autobuild commands rewrite
> autobuild.xml. We found, to our dismay, that after any such command, all
> the variables had been replaced with the specific value at that moment -
> making the parameterization useless.
>
> So now we expand variables in specific subcommands. I'm sure we don't yet
> do that everywhere we should.
>
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