build dependencies
- From: Colin Walters <walters verbum org>
- To: ostree-list gnome org
- Subject: build dependencies
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:22:51 -0400
Just a random idea that I had that I think is cool enough that I just
wanted to toss it out here. So the current "ostbuild" system just
builds a list of things in order, with no parallelism. This is good
because it's *reliable*. I can't emphasize how important it is to
have a well-defined process to rebuild *everything* from source,
including circular dependency handling, and resulting in a well-defined
"product" (in this case, filesystem trees).
But the downside is that it's a lot slower than it could be. And we
also really want a "reverse dependency" builder (when glib is updated,
rebuild most of the world; but when gnome-control-center is updated,
only rebuild it).
We can actually take a page from the evolution of Automake here - the
first time we do a build, just do it serially. But as we build
each thing, do the equivalent of dpkg/rpm auto-depends - basically
just look at DT_NEEDED in binaries, and reverse map to where they come
from.
The *next time* we do a build, we can say "Ok, gnome-control-center
depends on glib". This is the equivalent of what Automake does with
gcc -MD: http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html
This avoids us having to maintain a lot of duplicate metadata as
jhbuild and most distributions do.
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