This is the mail archive of the
java@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the Java project.
Re: reduce libgcj building time
Tom Tromey wrote:
Ranjit> As an aside, can we not use the make "$(subst )" function
Ranjit> to generate the ".deps" file names? Why do they have to be
Ranjit> listed out explicitly?
Ultimately we plan to get rid of the gnu make dependency. I don't
understand how this causes a problem though. Seems like configure
should detect the change you made and not require or create the extra
.deps files. Or are you editing Makefile directly?
It doesn't cause a "problem" as such, just that the Makefile
becomes doubly huge and unwieldy to navigate in, what with the
duplicate listing of essentially the same zillion names.
The ".deps" file mechanism has one tiny irritant, at least for
me: whenever there's an error in building a Java file and
I correct the cause of the error and attempt to build it again,
the build process stops and complains about the missing ".d"
file - I must first "touch" this file into existence before
continuing with the build.
Sincerely Yours,
Ranjit.
--
Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT hotmail DOT com
Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.tripod.com/