thoughts on jobserver implementation

2020-05-12 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
This is something I've had on my mind for a while, so the LKML thread made me try to write it down. The reason I started digging into the jobserver code is the following: Currently, it's very hard to interact with the GNU Make jobserver, for the simple reason that one doesn't know if the pipe is b

Dependencies from moc (was Re: Tail call elimination)

2020-05-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Daniel Herring (11 May 2020 21:46) wrote, inter alia, > For example, when a code generator like Qt's moc or uic is run, it > could also generate a rule update that causes Make to compile and link > the results. For reference, Qt6's moc (the Qt project's current dev branch) supports dependency gene