Hi Allen,

Allen Bierbaum wrote:
>
> I can put my finger on it for sure, the current setup just has a bad 
> smell to it.  There are duplicated settings in many places.  Maybe it 
> really points to the code being separated in multiple places and the 
> source tree needs reorganized... I don't really know.  In any case the 
> current setup is a pain when problems like this crop up because there is 
> no place you can go to see the "standard" dependencies for a given 
> library.  You have to look in multiple build.info files throughout the 
> tree.
> 
> The current setup would not be bad if there was one single place 
> (directory) that could be considered the "standard" root for a given 
> library.  Then we could put all the lib deps in there and not replicate 
> them everywhere else.  In other directories the build.info file would 
> end up very simple and only really saying what library to put the code 
> into.

That sounds like a good idea. I don't think this should be an issue, as 
all the build.info files do is add stuff to existing variables/maps, so 
as long as one place adds the right stuff we should be fine, right?

> I would not want to give up the current support, I am just looking for a 
> way to centralize the basics of it a little more.

        Dirk


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