On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A possible approarch might be "install-only-different-files". > "install" of GNU coreutils has an option "-p" to preserve the > timestamp of source file. If it works well, although all headers > & libraries are reinstalled, the timestamps of unchanged files > are not updated, so rebuilding of the application would be > minimized. > > Another approarch might be using "built-but-not-installed-yet" > library. I think pkg-config's "uninstalled" feature is similar, > but autoconf does not provide convenient macros to do such... > > Regards, > mpsuzuki >
You mention this "install-only-different-files"? What exactly is that? I can't find docs anywhere. install(1)'s -p option looks like it just blindly neglects to update the timestamp, I don't think it actually checks the file content to see if things have changed. Still confused, -Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
