[webkit-dev] Proposal for coding guidelines: Do not use fall-through switch cases inside #ifdef's

[Mark Rowe]

On 2012-08-21, at 13:02, Bruno Abinader <brunoabinader at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Tim Horton <timothy_horton at apple.com> wrote:
>> Without looking at the code, I vaguely think that CSSPropertyWebkitTextDecorationLine comes from a generated file that might not rebuild when it's supposed to. You should try a clean build and see -- there've been a few problems with this recently (I ran into it when switching flexbox and regions/exclusions on and off a lot a few months ago, and a colleague ran into it again recently in a similar situation).
> 
> Is there a way to force the EWS build bots to do a clean build? I'm
> frequently obtaining build failures on gtk, mac and win due to this
> refuse to rebuild these generated files (ie.
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94094#c9 ). From the output
> you can see that both Source/WebCore/css/CSSValueKeywords.in and
> Source/WebCore/css/CSSPropertyNames.in were supposed to generate the
> new values, but aren't, causing the failures.

It'd be preferable to fix whatever problem exists with the dependencies so that these files are automatically regenerated when needed. Otherwise anyone building on these platforms, including buildbots, will just run in to the issue after you land the patch.

- Mark