Martin Buchholz wrote: > Unfortunately, incremental builds by running make in subdirectories > have historically been quite unreliable, and it has never been highest > priority > to fix them. Developers often do (at least in the jdk repository) > - try incremental build; it might work... > - else back off to rebuilding everything; > cd jdk/make; make clobber all > > You could try to fix all of the subdirectory makefiles, but that's an > enormous job. > For bonus points, you could try to fix the architecture of the > recursive makes themselves > using the ideas in "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" > http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/
Mmm. Surely if anyone is going to hack on the makefiles the first thing to do is to fix the dependencies so that "make -j" works properly. Andrew.
