On Mon, 2 May 2022, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Indeed, if a source code package consists of 10000 files, then configure
produces another 10k files for the stuff in the ".deps" directories.
There is not much autotooling can do here, as I believe pregenerating
those 10k files all with "# dummy" content is to support the least common
demoniator of /usr/bin/make.
In a configure script I see the option:
--enable-dependency-tracking
do not reject slow dependency extractors
--disable-dependency-tracking
speeds up one-time build
so what tangible benefits does --disable-dependency-tracking actually
provide?
If empty files are ok (assuming they are needed at all), can they be
produced with a minimum number of executions of a 'touch' command?
Bob
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