On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:01:42PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:00:51PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:04:44PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > > I am too new to scons to give a full solution here. Here are some of > > > my opinions: > > > > > > 1. The check content (md5) approach is better than autotools since > > > time stamp can be easily changed and may trigger unnecessary rebuilds. > > > > Well, if the approach takes more time than unnecessary builds, > > one can hardly call it 'better'. > > IMO this feature is a real winner. You revert your patches, "svn up", > reapply patches. Only what really needs to be recompiled will be > recompiled. Very cool.
ccache basically does the same independent of a build system. And it works on full translation units, not on arbitrary chunks (aka 'single files') Andre'
