On 9/1/21 8:09 PM, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 15:02 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:08:16AM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
>>> If _that's_ the case, then our build system is holding all of us
>>> hostage. Which is frustrating to me. Should I shift focus to help with
>>> that, first?
>> Fresh ideas in this area are welcome, yes.
> Since the sslfiles target is its own little island in the dependency
> graph (it doesn't need anything from Makefile.global), would it be
> acceptable to just move it to a standalone sslfiles.mk that the
> Makefile defers to? E.g.
>
> sslfiles:
> $(MAKE) -f sslfiles.mk
> Then we wouldn't have to touch Makefile.global at all, because
> sslfiles.mk wouldn't need to include it. This also reduces .NOTPARALLEL
> pollution as a bonus.
>
I had he same thought yesterday, so I like the idea :-)
cheers
andrew
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