> I assume you mean autogen.sh Yes
> You can specify a directory where the build should download the files to. It > defaults to a subdirectory of the checkout. > You can use --with-external-tar to change this. > > In either case the build should not redownload files that are on disk. > >> Isn't make is only responsible for recompiling only those parts which >> were changed? > > Recompiling is different from redownloading. > > Either the version of the externals was updated since your last build or the > files were no longer in the download folder. There were files in both src folder and externals/tarballs folder. I even moved the files from src to externals/tarballs but still it started downloading the external libraries. Nevertheless I believe that the libraries have updated and have postponed the idea of building LO with all the recent changes until tomorrow! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice