Raptor (Symbian Build System v2)

Answers to Exercises

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Command Prompt Exercises A

1.  What's your version of Raptor? Use sbs -v to find out.

2.9.x [<date> release sf]

2.  To the nearest 10, how many lines of help output do you
get from Raptor's help option (sbs –h)? About 110
depending on the version of Raptor

3.  Which option lets you print the full log to STDOUT?
-f -
4.  What does the -n option do?
No build. Only generate the makefiles.

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Command Prompt Exercises B
1.  Navigate to component's group directory and run sbs
clean to clean it

2.  Build the component for “winscw urel” only (sbs –c

winscw_urel) – examine the onscreen output and the
output in the log file. What do you notice about the
format of the log file? The log file output is in XML
format.

3.  Clean the component again and build for “winscw urel”
and a non-existent configuration (sbs –c winscw_urel –
c made_up) What is noticeable about the output? An
error is given – the configuration made_up does not
exist.