On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
> This problem could also be solved by ignoring DerivedSources.make, and
> instead just add the "source" files to the vcproj. Then write a custom
> .rules file for each file type that runs the appropriate batch command to
> create the generated file. Then, dependency tracking would work just as it
> does for .cpp files.
Well, but you'd still have the slowness of spawing perl hundreds of
times. I'm not sure that would speed up the build at all (though it
would improve the dependency management).
> Our DerivedSources.make is already so tremendously out of sync with the one
> upstream that there doesn't seem to be much point in using it.
I agree.
Brett
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