Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:03 AM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> >> > So the dependency isn't correctly satisfied and we would always run it >> > from then on, effectively slowing down our build system. And that is >> > why I don't want to deal with this kind of issues - this should come >> > with the build system for free. >> >> Well, since we have our own build system, making it come for free is >> sort of our own job. >> >> > I think it's easier if we give up on intelligence here, and just recommend > ccache.
That does not seem like much of a help for the problem case at hand. > I think ccache uses content checksums, so even if the file is touched, > it can get the compilation result from cache if it was seen before. -- David Kastrup My replies have a tendency to cause friction. To help mitigating damage, feel free to forward problematic posts to me adding a subject like "timeout 1d" (for a suggested timeout of 1 day) or "offensive".
