Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, I am amazed at how much noise this question has generated. * Bob Rossi wrote on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:57:59PM CET: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:51:56AM -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: > > Warren Young wrote: > >> Bob Rossi wrote: > >>> > >>> I was

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Warren Young wrote: rsync doesn't use timestamps. It looks at the entire file contents for both source and target, and performs some pretty hefty computation on them. Thus, it only gives a speedup when copying files over a slow link between two machines. It's great ove

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Warren Young
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Perhaps the solution is to use an 'install' program which only copies files if they have changed. Rsync is an example of a program which can do this. rsync doesn't use timestamps. It looks at the entire file contents for both source and target, and performs some pre

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Johansson
Bob Rossi wrote: O, very nice. I think I'll beta test that for you guys. Do you happen to know how a user could get that feature working off the top of your head? I'm just a user and don't know how the feature is supposed to be used. Changelog refers to this thread http://lists.gnu.org/archi

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Bob Rossi wrote: It doesn't take very long for you perhaps. On my mingw configuration it takes very long. Perhaps 1-2 minutes. The executables tend to get very very large with debug enabled and the copy is slow. I feel your pain. :-) Perhaps the solution is to use an 'ins

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Rossi
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:51:56AM -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> Bob Rossi wrote: >>> >>> I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my >>> make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?) >&

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Johansson
Warren Young wrote: Bob Rossi wrote: I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?) No, a Makefile's install target normally just contains a series of commands for installing everything, without c

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Rossi
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:34:52AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Bob Rossi wrote: >> >> I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my >> make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?) > > No, a Makefile's install targ

Re: incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Warren Young
Bob Rossi wrote: I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?) No, a Makefile's install target normally just contains a series of commands for installing everything, without checking if it ex

incremental make install

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Rossi
Hi, I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?) Thanks, Bob Rossi