Kbase 17497: Application Compiler - How does it select files to compile ?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/10/1998 |
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Application Compiler - How does it select files to compile ?
The Application compiler behaves differently from the COMPILE
statement.
The App Compiler tries to ensure that the files the user selected to
compile are the ones that are compiled.
It ensures this by placing the directory in which the files are
located first in a temporary PROPATH the App Compiler establishes
before compiling the files. Otherwise, the App Compiler could compile
files in the wrong directory that are found before the location
the user thought they had selected (because of the PROPATH and
relative file referencing).
When two include files in different sub-directories have the same
name, it is questionable practice to leave it up to the PROPATH order
to determine which of the two include files is to be compiled into a
file. This occurs when the reference to the include is a direct one,
like {bug1.i}.
A better approach is to be explicit in the relative reference and
name the sub-directory the file is in, like {dir2/bug1.i}.
This removes ambiguities in code and improves compile speed,
since the include file is found quicker than with the simple
reference.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 17497