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briot.emmanuel@gmail.com writes:

> That's more or less what gprbuild does in practice. It uses a
> "distributed database" via the .ALI files, which are found in the
> object directories, so for best use each "build" should have a
> different object directories. And we are again hitting the notion of
> "build".

Ideally, each distinct set of scenario variable values should have its
own object directory. Will take a lot of time for the initial
compilations, of course.