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Re: Feature proposal: sort file compilation order by time
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>
- To: David Sterba <dave at jikos dot cz>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:50:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: Feature proposal: sort file compilation order by time
- References: <200401201901.24636.dave@jikos.cz>
>>> "David" == David Sterba <dave@jikos.cz> writes:
David> Hi,
David> I'd like to present an idea which can make edit-compile-edit
David> cycle faster.
David> The idea is simple: compile first files which vere modified
David> most recently.
The idea sounds sensible to me, but not the place. Wouldn't it
be more useful to implement this as a make option? It seems to
me that make has all the necessary information (it has to check
all time stamps anyway), and that doing this here would be more
generic.
Assuming that Makefile is re-read after one of its included file
(here Makefile.order) has changed is a GNU Make idiom anyway.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz