On 9/1/21 8:09 PM, Jacob Champion wrote: > On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 15:02 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:08:16AM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote: >>> 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. > Since the sslfiles target is its own little island in the dependency > graph (it doesn't need anything from Makefile.global), would it be > acceptable to just move it to a standalone sslfiles.mk that the > Makefile defers to? E.g. > > sslfiles: > $(MAKE) -f sslfiles.mk > Then we wouldn't have to touch Makefile.global at all, because > sslfiles.mk wouldn't need to include it. This also reduces .NOTPARALLEL > pollution as a bonus. >
I had he same thought yesterday, so I like the idea :-) cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
