On Sun, 1 Oct 2023 at 04:45, Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> wrote: > >I didn't explain sufficiently. The submakes I'm talking about are my > >doing, and I want to conditionalize them on whether > >--enable-dependency-tracking is used. > > > >In for example both ntpq/Makefile.am and ntpd/Makefile.am I'm invoking: > > > >(cd ../libntp && make libntp.a) > > Yes and if you didn't do sub-makes, then the prerequisites for libntp.a > would be known (and evaluatable to determine whether to rebuild). >
Yes. The only downside that comes to mind is it would no longer be easy to build a particular subdir despite some other subdir that builds earlier having an issue you don't care to tackle at the moment. I welcome anyone who wants to give it a try. Maintainability is more important to us than performance, and there may be gremlins in our build system that make it tricky, I haven't looked into it. I have my hands full with more pressing issues than overhauling the build system. -- Cheers, Dave Hart
