Обсуждение: make speed and dependency

Adam,

I wonder if the make process could be speeded up.
At the moment, the auto dependency tracking is integrally implemented
for each object make, which makes things quite slow. Can this be changed
to a "make dep; make; make install" way, as I know it from the kernel?

Regards,

Andreas

Not unless we want to manually track dependencies, which is how the
linux kernel currently works.  I would venture to say that a make dep
&& make for the linux kernel takes the same amount of time as a plain
make would if the kernel automatically tracked dependencies.  Currently
the make process only builds those sources which are out-of-date, so
while the initial build may take some time, any subsequent, incremental
builds, should be much faster.  Manual dependency tracking would
require re-running 'make dep' each time you made a source change.

ahp