[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Date Index]
[Thread Index]
- Subject: Re: Build systems suck. Can Lua be the basis for a better build system?
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:38:03 -0700
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:20 AM, martinwguy <martinwguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a Debian build-daemons or the GCC compile farm, for example, the
> system headers change all the time, as developers upload new, modified
> versions of all the libraries, some of which fix bad defines in header
> files.
I'd argue in a scenario like this the build system ought not to be
doing incremental builds in the first place, but instead "make clean"
every iteration.
/s/ Adam
