Re: builddir vs. srcdir

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:34:15PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Sorry, but I'll stick with my setup.  My parser depends on my lowest-
> level library (`libutils') and almost the whole build-tree depends on
> the generated files.  So, when I touched my `libutils' in any way, I
> would get a full-blown rebuild of the project.  That's why I used `cmp'
> and only replaced the `.[ch]' files with the newly generated if they
> differed.  And so I need timestamps to avoid unecessary commands run

yes, this indeed sounds as a good reason for usiong stamps.

> Anyway, even if I don't accept your advice this time, thank you for
> the help.  :)

You are welcome.  It was a nice excercise for me, too.

Stepan