I've updated the LinuxBuildInstructions, and moved the old instructions to
LinuxSconsBuild which parallels LinuxMakeBuild. I also made a quick attempt
at searching for "scons" in both the Wiki and the Sites pages and updated
whatever looked appropriate.
Step #1 down.
-Albert
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Antoine Labour <pi...@google.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Evan Martin <e...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Albert J. Wong (王重傑)
>> <ajw...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> > I actually got some weird warnings on the make build a while back when I
>> > specified the same file in two sources entries...something about
>> circular
>> > dependencies and make ignore one. But don't remember the exact scenario.
>> > I betcha it isn't a problem in chrome cause it'd only trigger a bug if
>> the
>> > file was compiled with different flags that modified behavior. Since
>> our
>> > defines and compiler options are so stable (especially within one
>> target),
>> > building once probably doesn't break stuff...
>>
>> Currently, as far as I know, no files in Chrome require this "compile
>> twice" behavior.
>> I am skeptical of the utility of gyp features that are unused by
>> Chrome. But this may be the magic bullet to make -fPIC on 64-bit
>> work.
>>
>> I think I still see situations where the generated strings aren't
>> properly rebuilt in the make build. You have to run it twice. At
>> this point, given the number of people hammering on it, I suspect the
>> gyp rules are wrong and that the make build parallelizes too
>> aggressively, but that is likely just wishful thinking and there's a
>> subtle bug in there. :(
>> That means for the build bots to switch, they need to always run make
>> twice to be sure everything was built.
>>
>> (PS: currently every time you run make it rebuilds some NACL stuff
>> too. I am so tired of NACL busting my build that I just turned it off
>> locally.)
>>
>
> That was a regression that I think I fixed.
>
> Antoine
>
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