On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:36:05PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On 4/17/13 11:52 AM, Ralph Giles wrote: > >On 13-04-17 10:20 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > > >>I agree the behavior is not expected if you're coming from a traditional > >>configure + make background. However, I believe automatic clobbering is > >>what the plurality of people want. > > > >Can the mach tool do the clobbering then? If you're correct in your > >belief that will encourage adoption. > > It /could/, sure. However, I consider auto clobbering a core build > system feature (sheriffs were very vocal about wanting it). As such, > it needs to be part of client.mk. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) > > Auto clobbering is currently hooked up in client.mk (it was > previously called as part of configure). Since |mach build| calls > client.mk to build, two birds one stone.
Autoclobbering on build slaves can be preserved while disabling on local builds. That was even suggested in the bug that implemented autoclobber. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
