On Friday 05 October 2007, Brad King wrote: > 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.
Thanks a lot, you rock! I could see a huge speed improvement especially when working with the laptop on batteries, this is very nice. -- David Faure, [EMAIL PROTECTED], sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
