[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[C.J. Adams-Collier]

On May 21, 2013 4:11 AM, "Andrew Bartlett" <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yuck.

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

Citation needed.  This is a common use case that should just work.

> Andrew Bartlett
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