David Faure wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Brad King wrote: >> There is alot of discussion in that bug report. >> >> The comparison of files is not for speed on installation...it's for not >> changing timestamps of already installed files and causing all *other* >> code using the installed files to rebuild, which is potentially even >> slower. > > Yes. The real solution is a dependency from the installed file to the > file-to-install, so > that the file-to-install isn't installed if it isn't newer than the > already-installed file. > And then, when that is implemented, thre is no need for comparing files in > order > to avoid changing timestamps, since you get for free by not installing the > file at all :)
This has now been implemented in CMake HEAD: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=3349 Repeat installations are now lightning fast. -Brad _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
