Static Library Cleaning and Rebuilding about netty-tcnative

[nmittler]

possibly ... I'm not sure what LOE this would involve.

[Scottmitch]

are we just blowing away the build artifacts when we FTP new code (or however we get new code)? can the build artifacts follow the typical build phases (mvn clean destroys build artifacts, and otherwise they persist)?

[nmittler]

are we just blowing away the build artifacts when we FTP new code (or however we get new code)?

If using ftp, probably ... if using the scm plugin (e.g boringssl), not sure.

can the build artifacts follow the typical build phases (mvn clean destroys build artifacts, and otherwise they persist)?

That would be ideal :) ... but sorting this out for each submodule (for both APR and SSL) will require some work.

[Scottmitch]

I think we should restructure the project so the build artifacts are separated from the directories that get FTPed. The configure scripts should support specifying a prefix or build directory right?

[nmittler]

Which build artifacts are you referring to? APR and SSL? In some cases, we're already creating an install directory (using --prefix when using automake). For ninja-based builds, we'd have to manually copy artifacts, but it's still doable.

[Scottmitch]

Which build artifacts are you referring to?

things that are generated during the build (.o, .a, .class, etc...) that can be inspected by build tools (make, maven, etc..) to avoid re-building if not necessary.

[nmittler]

so APR and SSL?

[Scottmitch]

APR and SSL

This statement was a bit vague and it was not clear what you were referring to. As long as you are implying the difference between source files obtained via the "get sources" step and the "artifacts generated during the build" step (.o, .a, .class) then yes plus the tcnative artifacts.

It looks like the tcnative artifacts are also regenerated even with no change (not sure if it was like this before though?):

$ mvn install
...
$ ls -al ./boringssl-static/target/native-build/src/.libs/ssl.o
... Feb 24 10:25 ./boringssl-static/target/native-build/src/.libs/ssl.o
$ mvn install
...
$ ls -al ./boringssl-static/target/native-build/src/.libs/ssl.o
... Feb 24 10:36 ./boringssl-static/target/native-build/src/.libs/ssl.o

[normanmaurer]

This was fixes by #390