Pushing toybox infrastructure upstream.

David N. Lombard dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Wed Mar 17 15:16:34 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:02:26PM -0700, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2010 04:43:56 Ralf Friedl wrote:
> 
> > If you place everything in one big include file, with preprocessor
> > conditions on the definition of THIS, you will trigger a recompile of
> > all files whenever you change a single file.
> 
> ... In fact, does 
> anybody except applet developers ever do anything _except_ build all from a 
> clean start?)

That quite true.  Unless I'm specifically chasing something in busybox, it's
always (re)built completely.  It ensures a linear, well-defined path, instead
of some random walk.

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
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