[Libreoffice] clean rebuilds needed

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Mon Sep 26 05:43:41 PDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 13:30 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:49 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > I *suppose* it would be madness to have dependency rules on the
> > makefiles themselves that anything created by the makefiles is out of
> > date when the makefiles change ?
> 
> 	:-) sounds reasonable enough. Of course its more than the makefile, the
> environment matters quite a bit too I imagine. We fixed scp2's macro.pl
> to detect and re-build for environment / scpdefs changes, but there is a
> lot more to do I guess.

I suppose we'd always be stuck with on incremental builds with e.g.
header removals where the header remains in the solver, and/or a .so
to .a changes, where the .so remain behind.

C.



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