You really should take a look ASAP because yesterday, the mac try slaves were like 35+ jobs being. That makes mac testing inexistent and will just cause more mac breakage. I assume today, tomorrow, etc will be as bad.
You can be our sheriff in the meantime if you want. :) M-A On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Thomas Van Lenten <thoma...@chromium.org> wrote: > The deps for all the files generated is a problem, Mark and I have talked > about it a few times, but haven't come up with something complete for it > yet, hopefully it will pop back up on our queues shortly so we can figure > out something more complete. > > TVL > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >> PS: here's a hack I did in make.gyp to output a rule that manually >> touches the output file to work around this. Perhaps you could do >> something in your Xcode generator to work around it for now. >> >> # Deep inside the "rules" conversions code path: >> >> if name == 'resources_grit': >> # HACK: This is ugly. Grit intentionally doesn't touch the >> # timestamp of its output file when the file doesn't change, >> # which is fine in hash-based dependency systems like scons >> # and forge, but not kosher in the make world. After some >> # discussion, hacking around it here seems like the least >> # amount of pain. >> fp.write('\...@touch --no-create $...@\n') >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote: >> > The build system has a generation dependency path like this: >> > >> > 1) final output depends on >> > 2) grit header and cc, which depends on >> > 3) grit input .grd file, which depends on >> > 4) theme resources >> > >> > This means whenever you tweak theme resources, you cause a recompile, >> > even when the .cc and .h in (2) don't change. So Glen requested Tony >> > change grit to not touch the outputs if their contents don't change, >> > and that's what's causing the problem. >> > >> > This works fine for scons (because it uses file content hashes to >> > compute whether dependencies need rebuilding), but breaks systems >> > (including make and Xcode) that rely on file timestamps. Why? >> > Because you end up with the timestamp of 3 being newer than the >> > timestamp of 2, so the dependency checker thinks you always need to >> > re-run grit to convert 3=>2. >> > >> > The symptom you get is that grit runs every time you build. >> > >> > I think the correct fix is to make grit just modify the output files, >> > like every other program does. Sorry, Glen. >> > >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---