On Tuesday 05 July 2011 10:19:08 Jens Thoms Toerring wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SIP wrapper for a C++ library, consisting of > about 60 .sip files. Things work quite well, but I have > an issue with the process of creating the wrapper library. > I use an (a bit adapted) configure script like it is shown > in the documentation. > > The problem is that each small change to any of the .sip > files requires a rebuilt of each and every file. I have > a "central" .sip file that includes all the others. And > when I change any of those files and thus need to run > the configure script all .cpp files are created anew. > And then, of course, they're newer than the correspon- > ding .o file and make will recompile all of them. That > takes around 5 minutes and really slows development down.
> So I am looking for a way to tell sip to not re-create > .cpp files when they aren't older than the correspon- > ding .sip file or anything equivalent. Any ideas how > to get this done? I think that such a check wouldn't work in many cases. However if sip would do a comparison of the existing .cpp file to the newly generated one, and only overwrite the existing one if there was a change, that should work properly in all cases. I've been meaning to request this for a few years myself. Matt _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
