Re: directories to check?

[Noel Yap]

The following isn't exactly what you're looking for, but have you considered breaking apart the project?  For example, are there portions that are much more stable than others?  Could these be released as separate projects that are used by the one you're 
working on?  If so, it would save everyone from having to rebuild these parts (aka components).

Noel

Torsten Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i use "make" in a large project.  Everything works, it is
> just very slow.
>
> From invoking "make" to the first command it takes about
> a minute.
>
> I think "make" first needs to get an overview of the dependencies
> of the files (internal, just in memory) and their time stamps
> (external, read from disk).
>
> I don't know how "make" works internally, but would it be an
> improvement to tell make right in the beginning to check
> the directories a, b, c and so on for _all_ their files and
> their content?  Just as a hint?
>
> Make could then first read all the hint-directory contents and
> their timestamps and then use these informations as a "cache".
>
>
> Would that be possible?
>
> Would that be an improvement?
>
> Is something like this maybe already available and i just haven't
> yet seen it?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Torsten.
>
>
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