Re: install without updating time stamps (was: Autoconf problem.)

[Andreas Schwab]

David Ronis <address@hidden> writes:

> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough.  Say I have 2 projects,
> evolution-data-server and evolution, where evolution depends on the
> latter.  Running "make install" in e-d-s generates a large number of
> libraries and .h files that evolution depends on (as do other components
> of gnome).  Now running make in evolution works as expected; however,
> after updating e-d-s via svn say, and making install, triggers a largely
> full rebuild of evolution triggered by the dependencies on the e-d-s .h
> files, even if none of them have changed.

Btw, one way to speed up this case is to use ccache, which caches the
preprocessed sources and corresponding object files to avoid
recompilation if the source didn't change.

Andreas.

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