Re: My build work and goals

2015-12-11 Thread Simon J. Gerraty
Julian Elischer wrote: > > Some improvements I have made recently: > > - WITH_FAST_DEPEND: Replacing the antiquated 'make depend'/'mkdep' with > > compiler dependency flags to generate the .depend files as a side-effect > > of compiling. This saves tremendous time in buildworld and buildkernel. >

Re: My build work and goals

2015-12-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/12/2015 3:56 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote: I think it is fair to say that most people don't understand how any of this works. [...] - No one really was trying to improve it head-on and focused on FreeBSD's general audience needs. The maintenance problems come down to expertise. Most develo

Re: My build work and goals

2015-12-10 Thread Simon J. Gerraty
Firstly, nice writup - a few extra blank lines might have helped my eyes though. Bryan Drewery wrote: > This mail is to outline my recent work, goals and motivations. This is > long. This is not really a architectural review or discussion mail. I ... > Some problems with the combined DIRDEPS_

My build work and goals

2015-12-10 Thread Bryan Drewery
This mail is to outline my recent work, goals and motivations. This is long. This is not really a architectural review or discussion mail. I am leaving those and details for their own threads where needed, so please do not start discussions about any of the details here. We will have them later