On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 18:51 +0000, Tim Murphy wrote: > On 24 February 2014 18:33, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > I would definitely want this to be totally invisible to the user and not > > require any magic in makefiles (so no special include operator, etc.) > > Basically it should either be so safe that there's no way to tell the > > difference between using the compiled version or not (other than > > performance), or it should not be generated at all. > > Just a word of caution - there is a way in which this kind of thing > can be a mistake, if you take a fairly simple request and expand it > into a general solution for all things, then hit snags and abandon the > whole effort when the initial subcase would have worked.
That's as may be, but I'm not prepared to add new user-visible syntax like "includedepcache" to the GNU make language, which then needs to be maintained forever, just because we're not sure if anything better will come along or not. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
