On 2018/04/16 16:34, trondd wrote: > On Mon, April 16, 2018 7:01 am, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2018/04/15 16:48, trondd wrote: > >> What is the policy around setting SEPARATE_BUILD? Any GNU build? Not > >> just builds that require it? > > > > It's useful for large ports where you might want to "make clean=build" > > and they take a long time to extract/patch. > > > > Otherwise it's pointless and can make extra work for updates because > > upstreams often don't test out-of-tree builds (and especially "make > > test" in that case) regularly. > > > > I don't consider links+ to be a large port. It builds either way, so I > don't have a strong opinion about it. > > Whatever it takes to get it commited. >
At the moment what it'll take is getting the clang 6 fallout under control before we start committing other things again, other things are pretty much all on hold at present.
