On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:08:16AM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote: > (Things would get hairier if someone included the SSL Makefile > somewhere else, but I don't see anyone doing that now and I don't know > why someone would.)
That would not happen. Hopefully. > But -- if I do spend the time to answer your broader question, does it > actually help my case? Someone could always add more stuff to > Makefile.global. It sounds like the actual fear is that we don't > understand what might be interacting with a very broad global target, > and that fear is too great to try a scoped change, in a niche Makefile, > early in a release cycle, to improve a development issue multiple > committers have now complained about. > > If _that's_ the case, then our build system is holding all of us > hostage. Which is frustrating to me. Should I shift focus to help with > that, first? Fresh ideas in this area are welcome, yes. FWIW, I'll try to spend a couple of hours on what you had upthread in 0002 for the simplification of SSL stuff generation and see if I can come up with something. -- Michael
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