[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: Upcoming Build System Changes

[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola]

> BTW, adding explicit library dependencies will make the parallel builds
> worse, because you know when a dependency is missing (the build fails)
> but you don't know when a dependency is superfluous.

Computing the dependencies creates a point in the build that depends on 
all libraries and all tools depend on it. The explicit dependencies 
would have to be in a really bad state to be this bad.

Cheers,
Rafael