Re: bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/08/2013 10:11 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2013-02-08 09:45, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini wrote: >>> Fine as well. And of curse, if you want to speed thing up and have more >>> control on the final result, feel free to shepherd the pending patches to >>> the agreed form ;-) -- whic

Re: bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-08 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/08/2013 05:13 AM, Miles Bader wrote: >>> Hmm, if that's the case, then I think "canon" is the wrong term to >>> use, as it typically implies that the result is still in the same >>> domain as the input. >>> >> Suggestions for a better name then? > > Dunno... something like "RELDIR_SYM" woul

Re: bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-02-08 09:45, Peter Rosin wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Fine as well. And of curse, if you want to speed thing up and have more >> control on the final result, feel free to shepherd the pending patches to >> the agreed form ;-) -- which if I'm not mistaken is: >> >> - make the seri

[PATCH 2/2] preproc: enhance and extend tests

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Rosin
From: Stefano Lattarini * t/preproc-demo.sh: New test, a "demo" of how the new pre-processing feature could be used in a real-world package. * t/preproc-errmsg.sh: New test, check that error messages remain useful when the new pre-processing features are involved. * t/preproc-reldir.sh: Split up

[PATCH 1/2] preproc: add support for relative names in included fragments

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Rosin
The rationale for this change is that it is annoying to have to repeat the directory name when including a Makefile fragment. For deep directory structures these repeats can generate a lot of bloat. It also hinders reuse and easy directory restructuring if all Makefile fragments have to know exact

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Fine as well. And of curse, if you want to speed thing up and have more > control on the final result, feel free to shepherd the pending patches to > the agreed form ;-) -- which if I'm not mistaken is: > > - make the series consist of only two patches, one introducing