[odb-users] response file support

Danya Patrushev danyapat at yandex.ru
Tue Jun 3 08:54:49 EDT 2025


On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 13:25 +0200, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> Danya Patrushev <danyapat at yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > Is the odb compiler able to handle long lists of input files via a
> > response file? The odb manual mentions an "options file" but
> > according to the description is intended for passing compiler
> > options only.
> 
> Yes, the options file is our rough equivalent to response files
> but it only allows you to specify options. There is little benefit
> to specifying a large number of input files to the ODB compiler
> since the driver will just compile them one at a time, as if you
> invoked ODB for each file in sequence.

According to the docs one tangible benefit is the ability to maintain a
single changelog file (--at-once). Or is it possible to achieve that by
specifying the same --changelog for each ODB invocation per single
file?



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