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Re: builddir vs. srcdir
Hello,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:34:15PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> Sorry, but I'll stick with my setup. My parser depends on my lowest-
> level library (`libutils') and almost the whole build-tree depends on
> the generated files. So, when I touched my `libutils' in any way, I
> would get a full-blown rebuild of the project. That's why I used `cmp'
> and only replaced the `.[ch]' files with the newly generated if they
> differed. And so I need timestamps to avoid unecessary commands run
yes, this indeed sounds as a good reason for usiong stamps.
> Anyway, even if I don't accept your advice this time, thank you for
> the help. :)
You are welcome. It was a nice excercise for me, too.
Stepan