Re: Is the build system SCM sensitive?

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2014-10-27 14:07, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 27 October 2014 19:40, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think I know what triggered this - a recent change in bitbake.conf
>     redefined BUILD_CPP (and others).  I had merged this change some six
>     hours before my strange build and had been building many other recipes
>     (also python with a similar set of dependencies) a number of times
>     before I touched the python-pygtk recipe.  Some dependency in that
>     recipe set off the rebuild storm that my other recipes had not.
>
>
> Ah yes, welcome back to master.  There's been stuff building up for a while.  :)
>
> This is where I point out that master between a release and M1 is known to be "volatile".  Whilst we obviously endeavour for it to be always buildable, deep and fundamental changes
> will be going in sooner rather than later.

This doesn't bother me - I expect it.  What took me by surprise
was when the behaviour radically changed from what I had seen
all day.  Totally explainable, but unexpected nonetheless.

>
> (ie this might be time to dust of my libexecdir-changing series)

Go for it :-)

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