Re: Suggestion: File to use when compile

Wow.  That's impressive.  You have a program that compiles programs
for you?  That has to be the best solution I have heard yet!  That
gives me quite a few ideas... hmmmmmm..............


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:11:01 -0400, Dan Bale <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have felt your pain.
> 
> What I do now is put a specially-recognized comment in the RPG source that a
> preprocessor app uses to do overrides, or create temporary workfiles (those
> that would normally only be in QTEMP), change library list, etc. etc.  It's
> the only way to fly.  Here's an example of what I use:
> 
>  ...+... 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7 ..
>       **#$%PRE: RMVLIBLE QTEMP
>       **#$%PRE: ADDLIBLE QTEMP *FIRST
>       **#$%PRE: CRTPF QTEMP/DL566W SRCFILE(DBCUSTOM/QDDSSRC) SRCMBR(*FILE)
>       **#$%PRE:
>       **#$%COM: OPTION(*SRCDBG)
> 
> My preprocessor expects:
>      '**#$%' is required in columns 7-11
>      'PRE:'  is required in columns 12-15 for PRE-compiler commands
>      'COM:'  is required in columns 12-15 for COMpiler options
> 
> Instead of using PDM option 14, I use a user option that calls my
> preprocessor, passes Lib/File(SourceMbr) and source type.  The latter is
> used to determine which compiler to call.
> 
> hth,
> db
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Lim Hock-Chai
> > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:42 PM
> >
> > That is the problem.  I've to override it and have to compile
> > on-line, which is fine if I'm changing/creating the program at
> > the moment.  The real problem comes when I change some master
> > file and have to do some massive recompile.  Those programs will
> > get error out and I've to research as what file I've override
> > them to (what a pain).
> 
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