Alec Flett wrote:
>> - I notice that 'depend' now forces an export phase. This means >> that "depend build_all" would result in two export phases. I see >> that a 'build_all_dep' target was added to client.mak to avoid >> the duplication. That is great. But I wonder if this got any >> publicity. FWIW, I'd have called it 'build_all_depend' or >> 'depend_build_all'. The abbreviation of 'depend' seems >> gratuitous. No, there was no publicity about the change. It was more of an afterthought really. Our dependencies have always been slightly off because we ran 'depend' before any of the generated headers were regenerated. This seemed like as good of a time as any to fix that especially since that difference matters now (with the purging). >> - I wonder out loud again if there is still any real reason to be >> building js/src during the export phase. I was wondering the same thing. We don't build it during export on unix so I thought it was a win32 thing. - cls
