There have long been talks of re-writing the idl bindings auto-gen
system, it's just not been done yet. I'm sure WebKit folks would be
happy for any work in the area.
-eric
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, <t...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Brett Wilson wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > 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).
>>
>> But you would only pay it once. Using native vcproj files may get the
>> dependencies right and maybe you wouldn't need to do a full rebuild after
>> each sync then. Or maybe I put too much faith in MSVC's dependency
>> management.
>
> Right. This is what I was thinking too. I do clobber builds primarily
> (only?) because of issues related to DerivedSources.
>
>>
>> > > 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.
>>
>> It's not used in the scons build which properly tracks dependencies so
>> the files are only generated once. Would Incredibuild be able to
>> parallelize the perl scripts or does it only know how to parallelize c++
>> compiles?
>
> That's a great question :)
> I suspect it only runs those locally.
> -Darin
>
>
> >
>
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