Re: gnustep-base on msys/mingw: make always regenerates

[Adam Fedor]

Marcel Weiher wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I have now found the instructions for building gnustep with MSYS+MinGW, 
> and things are working much better than before with cygwin and so forht 
> (Duh!).  However, there still are some minor wrinkles to get out, but 
> nothing really problematic.  What *is* problematic is that make always 
> restarts the build from scratch.  Not too pleasant on Virtual PC...
>
> Any ideas what could be causing the build to re-start from scratch each 
> time, even if the previus make failed in the final link phase?  One 
> thing I noticed is that it removes and re-copies the headers each time. 
>  Are there dependencies on the build-locations of the headers?

re-copying the headers is a dumb hack. Perhaps this should be improved. 
It shouldn't re-compile everything though. Perhaps just 10 or 20 files.

In any case, you could avoid this by compiling from a subdirectory:

cd Source
make



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