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[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:44:13PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2004.11.29 10:55:46 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > > > - Redoing the build system (make files), because it clearly shows its
> > > >   age and several things are broken, e.g. OBJDIR.
> > > 
> > > Makes sense.  I'd be happier seeing a comprehensive list of the things
> > > that are broken though, so we can measure the replacement and make sure
> > > it solves the problems.
> > 
> > Yes, a few of the recent additions (like mirrors.xml) broke parts of
> > the build, and it might be better to just fix those broken commits of
> > the past few years rather than starting from scratch.
> 
> OBJDIR was broken way before mirrors.xml.  Also, I'm not really
> talking about starting on a clean slate.  Of course parts of the the
> current buildsystem is just fine, but others are just a mess.
>

I can confirm that, since I'm guilty of this OBJDIR issue.  It's not
possible to "easily" fix it without changing a lot of things, so it's
better to start a rewrite from zero.

Marc
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