Re: Updating IDL uuids, and incremental compilation debugging made easier

2013-08-21 Thread Neil
Mike Hommey wrote: Secondly, the build system recently grew a new build-time option to help determine why something is being recompiled (bug 903385). I'm sure some have tried to used make -d for that, and noticed that on top of being heavily verbose, it also breaks the build in some places.

Re: Updating IDL uuids, and incremental compilation debugging made easier

2013-08-13 Thread Neil
Mike Hommey wrote: Secondly, the build system recently grew a new build-time option to help determine why something is being recompiled (bug 903385). Plus by default it now prints the names of files being linked as well as compiled, which is handy. -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Updating IDL uuids, and incremental compilation debugging made easier

2013-08-12 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, As the subject indicates, this message is about two completely unrelated small things that landed recently. I didn't feel like writing two different messages. Steve Find wrote a perl script[1] a while ago[2] to help recursively update uuids in interfaces and their decendents. 1.