Re: Why does build output appear in RELEASE_VS2012x86\X64\blah blah\DEBUG rather than OUTPUT ?

[Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>]

> On Nov 3, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Shubha Ramani <shubharamani@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> So are you saying that what I have observed is normal Andrew ?

Yes.

The per toolchain build rules in the Conf/build_rule.txt and Conf/tools_def.txt send the build output to the correct location. 

I seem to remember it has always worked this way. 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> Shubha Shubha D. Ramanishubharamani@gmail.com
> shubharamani@yahoo.com 
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>    On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 2:51 PM, Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 2, 2016, at 10:12 AM, Shubha Ramani <shubharamani@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Seems like DEBUG and OUTPUT got switched somehow and I don't know how. The stuff used to appear in OUTPUT but somehow they got switched.
>> Where do I configure this ?
> 
> Shudha,
> 
> I think the DEBUG dir is for things that are saved for debugging and OUTPUT is for things not needed for debug so it is just a generic policy in the tools. I think the original concept is you need to save things in DEBUG for future source level debugging and things in OUTPUT can be discarded. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Fish
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>> Thanks,
>> Shubha Shubha D. Ramanishubharamani@gmail.com
>> shubharamani@yahoo.com
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