SOURCE_PREFIX_MAP

  • set by a build-tool
  • for mapping build paths
  • honoured by GCC and every build tool that generates build-paths
  • how to support multiple mappings

one or multiple mappings?

  • multiple is better, allows for more intuitive overrides by child processes

env variable preferred over cli

separator character, space or newline?

how to apply the mappings when eventually set?

  • multiple ordered mappings, child build processes append to this map (to the end)
  • child build tools apply the mapping last to first

the exact format of the envvar

  • expressings multiple paths into a single string is hard
  • “common things easy, uncommon things possible”

TODO:

  • (infinity0, doko) research passing newlines through shell, m4, autoconf
  • look how gdb parse and loads symbol paths to source code paths

SOURCE_PREFIX_MAP Post-It notes