Re: scripts/build/scan-mf-deps: script to generate MF dependencies (issue 553700043 by address@hidden)

[jonas . hahnfeld]

On 2020/03/15 18:11:44, hanwenn wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 5:03 PM David Kastrup <mailto:address@hidden>
wrote:
> > Makefiles are an established technique well-known to most
contributors.
> > Recursive python scripts for writing human-unreadable controlling
files
> 
> What recursive script are you talking about ?
> 
> > in some build system that is the current fad of the year
incompatible
> > with anything else
> 
> Are you talking about Ninja? You realize that it is the standard
> infrastructure of virtually all modern build systems, including
> Meson/CMake. The chrome browser is built with Ninja, as is the Android
> platform, and the Clang compiler.

Begin a LLVM committer, let me disagree with this one: LLVM/Clang uses
CMake which is *able* to generate Ninja. Or Makefiles. Or files for
VisualStudio. (Did I forget one "generator" target?)

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