Re: [PATCH 0/8] Some build system improvements

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 03:21:21PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch series contains a small set of build system improvements:
> >
> >   - The first couple patches introduce a new "tools/" directory that
> >     contains items related to our build infrastructure and to our
> >     developer tooling. This finally follows up on my promise to do this
> >     back when I did the spring clean of "contrib/". [1]
> >
> >   - The last couple patches introduce precompiled headers into Meson for
> >     a nice compilation speedup of ~30%. It's 
> >
> > The two topics are not really related with one another other than being
> > related to build systems. I decided to throw them in the same patch
> > series though so that I can introduce "precompiled.h" in "tools/".
> 
> We saw a handful of exchanges a few days ago, but are there any more
> comments?  Is the topic ready to advance?

I'll send a v2 with some minor adjustments in a bit. Thanks!

Patrick