Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Avoiding recompilation during 'make all' due to a version change was the very >> reason that git-version-gen was invented. Recompiling the version string is >> EXPENSIVE - it costs a LOT of time to recompile the world because config.h >> was >> touched because autoconf reran to pick up a new version string. > > Stepping back for a minute: a minor change like a version-number bump > should not force the system to recompile everything in sight. In the > long run, we should look into fixing the normal build process to put > the version string somewhere else than config.h.
I too would like this. If you use ccache (and you should!), you'll notice a bigger performance gain if it can reuse more .o files. Then, simply linking in a symbol for the version string would be better.
