"Scott Cantor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html >> >> Taken in by those arguments, I've gone for the monolithic make in >> large part. There are separate makefiles for obj, src, tests. > > Some of those arguments don't really seem to hold that much with an > autotools-driven build. There's certainly not a significant problem with > over-recompilation that I've ever noticed, and that would be the worst of > the problems that paper highlights to me.
If over-recompilation is the issue, than I would not worry at all. If people area truly concerned about this they should look into using a caching compiler like ccache as a front-end to their normal compiler. I use ccache for all my projects. It enables me to do a complete make clean before doing any build, and it only re-compiles the files whose cpp output has changed. It's a great speed-up over complete recompilation, and only a minor slowdown compared to fully dependancy aware re-compilation. Cheers, jas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
