On 06/11/10 14:18, M. Warner Losh wrote: > "This" is building the proper set of tools for the target. It is easy > to do, and only a couple lines of Makefile foo in Makefile.inc1 > instead of in bsd.own.mk. It is a fairly natural consequence of the > tbemd stuff I have been working on and have started merging. > > The consequences today are that you build some extra tools that are > only needed to build clang when in fact you aren't really going to be > building clang. The "cost" is however long it takes to do this on the > platform you are building on. This can range from a minute or two to > tens of minutes depending on the power of your build system. Ok, obviously I'm dense because I didn't understand an answer to my question anywhere in there. :) So let me try again. Why are we not optimizing for the common case, where the world is built on the system it's going to run on, which means that WITHOUT_CLANG can easily mean exactly that? Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/Received on Sat Jun 12 2010 - 03:07:09 UTC
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