Re: Using -MMD instead of -MD for depndency generation

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Paul,

* Paul Smith wrote on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:25:03PM CEST:
> I downloaded the tarball you linked to, to my system but wasn't able to
> build; it configured and built about half the code, then failed:
> 
>           CXX    
> WebKit/gtk/WebCoreSupport/libwebkitgtk_1_0_la-FullscreenVideoController.lo
>         WebKit/gtk/WebCoreSupport/FullscreenVideoController.cpp:32: fatal 
> error: gst/gst.h: No such file or directory

Rerun with 'make V=1' to see the command that causeed the failure.

> Anyway, with half the tree built (I think):
> 
>         webkit-1.3.5$ find -name \*.o | wc -l
>         1437
> 
> make 3.81 takes about 8 seconds on my system to get back to trying to
> build the above file, and failing.  I do notice that make 3.82 takes a
> lot longer (23s !!) so there's definitely something I need to check out
> in that respect.  But 5m seems pretty crazy.

Agreed.

Thanks for sharing this data!
Ralf