Re: dependency system

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

> Olaf> (I fail to see any advantage in the new system
> 
> That's too bad.  You must not have run into the various bugs with the
> old approach.

What kind of bugs? And why is the new approach better in this regard?

> Olaf> while the clobbering of the make output is a considerable Olaf>
> problem -- it's hardly possible to see what is beeing done or to Olaf>
> find compiler messages among all the garbage :-( )
> 
> I agree, that's a problem.
> 
> I personally always compile in Emacs.  Then I don't have to look for
> the output, I just let C-x ` do it for me.  But I realize this doesn't
> work for everybody.

Well, I also compile in vim most of the time. However, sometimes I still
want to see which files are recompiled. And, I still compile directly
quite often.

> I've planned for a while to speed up compilations when using gcc3, by
> noticing this at configure time and subsequently avoiding the use of
> depcomp.  As a side effect this should clean up the output a bit.

I guess the speed gain won't be too big -- for my projects it's
something about 17 and 15 seconds or so (haven't measured exactly), and
it uses quite small source files with many dependencies. (Or does that
depend on the overall project size?)

But what does that got to do with gcc3?

> If you're interested in this I can give you an outline of how to
> implement it.  It shouldn't be that hard.

Well, there is one fundamental obstacle to this: I've no clue about
Perl :-(

-Olaf-

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