Re: Build systems suck. Can Lua be the basis for a better build system?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.

Indeed.  However nice it is to have accurate incremental builds,
anybody that builds tons of packages can't really rely on them, there
are too many packages that get it wrong, and fixing all of them is too
much work (and even if you _do_ fix stuff, bugs slip through)....

But my impression was that Debian already _does_ this.. Actually I
thought they do a source + build-dependencies install into a clean
system before building...

-miles

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