Re: [RFC] Build System Documentation

Gabriela Gibson wrote on Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 17:13:08 +0000:
> On 20/02/13 21:06, Ben Reser wrote:
> > You can easily see the difference
>> by running `./autogen.sh` saving the build-outputs.mk and then running
>> `./autogen.sh -s` and comparing the results.
>
> Should there be a section on how and when to run the various parts of
> the build system?
>

Sure. Having when "Instead of re-running autogen.sh and configure, you
can run only gen-make.py" works be documented somewhere would be great.

>> You skipped the primary function of gen-make.py which is caused by
>> this call "generator.write()".
>
> There are two gen-make.py files -- I was describing /trunk/gen-make.py.
>
> It may be worthwhile to rename the /trunk/gen-make.py if that is possible.
>

There's just one. build/generator/gen_make.py has an underscore.
Received on 2013-02-22 22:10:39 CET