Oh Noes! A Bug in Tup
I thought it might be interesting to see an example of what I consider to be a bug in tup, especially since most other build systems would not consider this scenario a bug. While working on building mozilla-central, I had 25 new commits since the day started. After working on each commit, I would run 'tup upd' to bring the system up-to-date. Some commits only needed a single update, others required me to iterate many times until I was satisfied with the new commit. After I was done for the day, I pulled the repo onto another machine and ran a single 'tup upd' there, and that's when I noticed a problem...
Tupfiles in m-c: A First Attempt
Here is a first look at the beginnings of a Tupfile overlay for the mozilla-central source tree. So far it just handles the XPIDLSRCS variable, so it installs .idl files into dist/idl and generates .h files from them in dist/include. This should work in both Linux and OSX, though Windows won't run at the moment because some tup features that are used have not yet been implemented on that platform.
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