gn: Minimize rebuilding when commit hash changes

Today, src/base:base depends on a generated header that embeds the
perfetto version (therefore the repository commit hash).

Since almost everything depends on src/base:base, when the commit hash
changes, everything is rebuilt.

This is kind of wasteful when changing commits often (e.g., when doing
bisects).

This commit fixes the problem by putting version header into its own gn
target, which is going to be depended on by only a few other targets.

This avoids, for example, rebuilding the protoc_plugin, which triggers
the recompilation on most of the perfetto code.

Change-Id: I68140570e1abda489d9f30582eed5f8ddb7b3ead
15 files changed
tree: 63a79ddc541fd4bad44bd230803f429064f26729
  1. .github/
  2. bazel/
  3. build_overrides/
  4. buildtools/
  5. debian/
  6. docs/
  7. examples/
  8. gn/
  9. include/
  10. infra/
  11. protos/
  12. python/
  13. src/
  14. test/
  15. tools/
  16. ui/
  17. .clang-format
  18. .clang-tidy
  19. .gitattributes
  20. .gitignore
  21. .gn
  22. .style.yapf
  23. Android.bp
  24. Android.bp.extras
  25. BUILD
  26. BUILD.extras
  27. BUILD.gn
  28. CHANGELOG
  29. codereview.settings
  30. DIR_METADATA
  31. heapprofd.rc
  32. LICENSE
  33. meson.build
  34. METADATA
  35. MODULE_LICENSE_APACHE2
  36. OWNERS
  37. perfetto.rc
  38. PerfettoIntegrationTests.xml
  39. PRESUBMIT.py
  40. README.chromium
  41. README.md
  42. TEST_MAPPING
  43. traced_perf.rc
  44. WORKSPACE
README.md

Perfetto - System profiling, app tracing and trace analysis

Perfetto is a production-grade open-source stack for performance instrumentation and trace analysis. It offers services and libraries and for recording system-level and app-level traces, native + java heap profiling, a library for analyzing traces using SQL and a web-based UI to visualize and explore multi-GB traces.

See https://perfetto.dev/docs or the /docs/ directory for documentation.