[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 12:51 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:28:53PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > IIRC
> > 
> > ./buildtools/bin/waf build --targets=smbtorture
> > 
> > should rebuild just smbtorture.
> 
> Ah, another one: When coding larger changes, in autoconf I
> like the ability to just compile one .o file. For example, I
> frequently do a "make smbd/open.o" for example if I mess
> with that. So far I have not found a way to do that in waf
> quickly. Any hint for that?

You could determine the command waf is using (make V=1 should do it),
and manually invoke gcc yourself.

It's not pretty, but it should allow you to handle this unusual case. 

Andrew Bartlett

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