On 04/04/13 20:47, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:11:35PM -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: >> I just changed vcl/source/window/builder.cxx and did top-level make. >> The make had 184 [build LNK] steps. Is this to be expected?
> We could evade that with build order only deps (signified :|, see > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Prerequisite-Types.html ) > and > with (simplified): > > $(call gb_Library_get_target,a) :| $(call gb_Library_get_target,b) > $(call gb_Library_get_target,a) : $(call gb_Library_get_headers_target,b) > $(call gb_Library_get_target,b) : some object from lib b : some cxx from lib > b > > This would make library a being rebuild only if one of the 'public', delivered > headers of library b changed but not otherwise. And it would make sure, that > if > both library a and b need to be rebuild, a will always be rebuild after b. but it has the significant problem that you can remove implementations of the public API of library a without noticing it (which you would when library b fails to link), thus making incremental builds unsound. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
