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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-09-09 07:31:47 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-09-09 07:31:47 +0200
commit847793d31b2ee057dd9f069c5d354063396aff3b (patch)
tree198d39a8c888c8e0863ba276080952149c7e5566 /libbuild2/module.cxx
parent12d8a2cfcfa10d6de746a919dc995da30850f4ee (diff)
Expand notes on issues with build system modules that require bootstrap
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diff --git a/libbuild2/module.cxx b/libbuild2/module.cxx
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--- a/libbuild2/module.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/module.cxx
@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ namespace build2
// places other than the default options file) we would have to propagate
// things explicitly. So for now the thinking is that one shouldn't write
// such tests except in controlled cases (e.g., module's *-tests).
+ //
+ // And another case is the bdep-sync hook which also doesn't have the
+ // global overrides propagated to it.
+ //
+ // It does feel right to propagate global overrides to all the nested
+ // build system invocations. Maybe we should set an environment variable?
module_load_function* r (nullptr);