On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> not more ways for the user to tell the build system "only rebuild some >> stuff". > > ... except that bholley and ehsan are asking for a way to override the > dependency tracking and just rebuild particular directories. Which is > reasonable, up to a point. I argue that support for this kind of thing > should be very limited and simple, to avoid getting in glandium's way > as he works towards "a proper build system".
This makes sense to me. It occurred to me that maybe this can be solved by having a mach command similar to "build binaries", but which *only* links libraries and doesn't compile any cpp files. That way it's easy enough to do "mach build dom/whatever && mach build linklibraries". This wouldn't need the smarts to figure out which libraries needs to be relinked if a given source file has change, it would just attempt to relink all of them. I think the big timesave that bholley and ehsan is looking for is avoiding recompiling a bunch of C++ files, which this would still accomplish. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
