On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:11:15 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <[email protected]> wrote: > > * ECONF-OPTIONS > > query > --disable-dependency-tracking has other implications than it being > allowed to be passed to ./configure or not - such as dependency > tracking being, well, disabled and the affects of that in face of any > outside influences to headers used by it from the system, when > compared to the case when dependency tracking is enabled. Such as > when a separate (possibly parallel) install step kicks in.
If a parallel install is overwriting things on / whilst a package is compiling, things are already horribly broken regardless of this switch. PMS explicitly forbids that from happening. > Olivier Crête also has an outstanding comment about a maintainer > possibly not wanting that disabled in case of patches applied. Could > use some elaboration on that thought, or comments in replies. It's always possible to override it if necessary. > --enable-fast-install is completely new to me for consideration under > EAPI-3. Maybe I just missed it when reading PMS draft before, and it > wasn't listed in the other summaries. No, it's been there all along. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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