On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > > > > What's needed here is a dependency management system that > > simply builds what's needed regardless of what's changed, > > Otherwise known as "a proper build system". glandium and co. have been > working towards that for a long time. It's a big, difficult job. |mach > build binaries| and |mach build faster| are temporary waypoints along > the way that approximate "a proper build system" for a couple of > common workflows. Eventually |mach build| should just do the right > thing, no matter what files you've touched... > > > not more ways for the user to tell the build system "only rebuild some > stuff". > > ... except that bholley and ehsan are asking for a way to override the > dependency tracking and just rebuild particular directories. I don't want to speak for bholley and ehsan, but when *I* run into this problem it's because the build system isn't doing the right thing. If it were, I wouldn't have to. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
