On 2014-08-26, 6:05 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:40:39AM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Well, reading this thread, it doesn't seem mach build dir is broken for
the use people make of it, which is to build in a single directory. What
people want apparently, is more being able to build a single file or set
of files, more than a directory and its subdirectories.
And ninja is not going to change anything for people wanting to rebuild
a few files when changing a header. In fact, it would likely make things
harder for them.
Not at all, quite to the contrary. You can build specific targets with
ninja just fine, and it's non-recursive and fast and all. :-)
You can't say "build all things in foo and its subdirectories", can you?
I think you can. As an example from the clang's generated ninja build
system, they have targets such as:
https://gist.github.com/ehsan/02bb4f129e72dad5ee52
Basically I think you are able to define a tree of targets, which can
map to the file and directory structure of the source dir.
Cheers,
Ehsan
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