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Re: making pre-build headers
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at sco dot COM>
- Subject: Re: making pre-build headers
- From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:17:48 -0600
- Cc: Paul Martinolich <martinol at datasync dot com>, autoconf at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
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On 31-Oct-2000, Bruce Korb <bkorb@sco.COM> wrote:
| It is ugly. Especially
| when the automated dependencies come along and decide
| that your objects depend on mumble.h and mumble.h depends
| on your sources and you modified your sources, so it
| must be time to regenerate the mumble.h and recompile everything.
Isn't that what the move-if-change script is for? It won't prevent
mumble.h from being created, but it should allow you to avoid
recompiling everything if mumble.h hasn't actually changed. I find
that this generally works well unless the process to create mumble.h
takes a lot of time.
jwe