Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:55:34 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, imp@village.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nits Message-ID: <199607160155.LAA28339@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>Cool. So setenv INSTALL "install -C" should do the trick for me >before I build, right? I should also be able to put this in >/etc/make.conf, if I read sys.mk correctly. >Without that hack, it took 1:11:35 to do a make all install. I'll >have to see what delta that has on the build time. It will probably take longer :-). The main benefits of not clobbering the timestamps are that you and dump(8) can tell what has really changed simply by looking at the timestamps. >Also, should I bother with make depend? It takes another hour on my >machine. It seems that there should be an easy way to tell if the Yes. It shouldn't take long to redo it, especially if you don't run `make depend' separately (`make depend all' sometimes uses out of date dependencies). >.depend file is out of date or not. Will have to think about this I don't think there is an easy way. To be complete, it is necessary to check the timestamps of all the source files, including all the headers referenced in .depend. `make depend' now only checks the timestamps of the primary sources. >because I want to use the feature, but not pay so high a price when 20 >files in the whole system have changed. Or does this fall into the >category of "always do a make depend, or we'll not help you if you get >an odd failure" category? Yes. Bruce
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199607160155.LAA28339>