Re: lib/9702: Makefile lossage for crypto-intl

[Lennart Augustsson <lennart%augustsson.net@localhost>]

Simon Burge wrote:

> >       There is a problem with the Makefiles for the crypto-intl stuff.
> >       It remakes things too often.
> I _think_ from memory that this is because commands like compile_et and
> so on get rebuilt (because libc is updated) and they have dependancies
> on them so other files get rebuilt.

Aha!


> Do you get unnecessary recompiles
> if you "make UPDATE=y build" yet again?

No.


> Without looking, a fix could possibly be to get compile_et to generate
> it's output into a temp file and compare that with the old generated
> file and only update it if it's changed.

That seems like a good way to get out of this.  I seem to spend most of
my CPU-time on recompiling crypto-junk nowadays. :)

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        -- Lennart