Currently one of the biggest pain points with the build system is the number of layered shell scripts that interact with each other in non-obvious ways.
The easiest way to simplify the situation, to start off with, is to delete or deprecate some of them as entry points. I deleted some in https://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/c/12271/ and it felt good. The make_*.sh scripts are one candidate. I think the logic there should be either moved to CMake (preferably) so we get proper dependency management and a standard interface or become a function in buildall.sh. That way, buildall.sh is the entry point if you want to do a full build or switch build types and make/ninja is the entry point for incremental builds. That's already my workflow and it works well. Does anyone use those make_*.sh scripts directly as part of their workflow? If so, which ones and how attached are you to them? - Tim
