----- Original Message ----- > On the other hand, if the build system automatically prioritized > .cpp dependencies ahead of .h dependencies and just automatically > built the things most likely to break first, I wouldn't have to > worry about this at all.
I'd be satisfied with that as well. > Strawman idea: add support for: > > mach check-syntax <directory>... > > which runs the compiler with -fsyntax-only (GCCish) or /Zs (MSVC) > on the source files in the given directory(ies). Based on what I can understand from the documentation, -fsyntax-only won't do typechecking, which is usually the most important thing. One thing I think that's lacking in this discussion is an understanding of why removing support for "mach build <subdirectory>" helps the build system. What are the difficult parts of supporting that functionality? Basic tasks like compiling C++ and preprocessing JS don't seem like they'd be all that hard to implement on a per-directory basis, so I don't understand why anyone would want to remove them. If the goal is just to remove some weird corner case, then maybe we could all agree that few people care about that aspect and move on. -Bill _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
