On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:55:21PM -0800, Lee Olsen wrote: >Hello all; > >I now have a handle on what is going on and why, and some proposed >chasnges to fix it. >Here's a simplification of the install dependency chain from >xc/lib/font/Makefile: > >install:: lib$(LIBNAME).a > >lib$(LIBNAME).a : $(SUBDIRS) > >$(SUBDIRS) : FRC > @echo "making all in $(CURRENT_DIR)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > @$(MAKE) -C $@ $(MFLAGS) $(PARALLELMFLAGS) >CDEBUGFLAGS="$(CDEBUGFLAGS)" LDSTRIPFLAGS="$(LDSTRIPFLAGS)" all > >FRC : > >Since FRC never exists, it gets remade, forcing $(SUBDIRS) to be remade, >echoing >"making all in ..." and doing just that. To stop the rebuilding during >an install, the >dependency chains must be separated. Removing all dependencies on >install:: targets >does exactly that.
What is the rebuilding in $(SUBDIRS) causing to get rebuilt? I see get rebuilt is the symlinks to xc/exports for the font modules. That can be fixed by moving where the link creation is done, so that it isn't a separate all:: target of its own. (I'm testing a patch that does this now.) While removing the dependencies for the install targets is probably reasonable, I think we should be able to fix the specific problems at their source. They are usually a sign that something isn't quite right. David _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
