On 8 Oct, 2010, at 8:59, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Charles Doutriaux <doutria...@llnl.gov> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> It seems that since python 2.7 the default behaviour of distutils changed. >> >> I have a project with a LOT of .c files used in an extension >> >> It used to be that when rebuilding (python setup.py build install) it >> would only "rebuild" the .o for the C files that actually changed. >> >> Since Python 2.7 this seems to have changed. It knows rebuilds EVERY C >> file in my extension no matter if they changed or not... >> >> I can see why the "Default" behaviour of distutils has been changed, it >> is safer, but is there a way to "revert" to the old way where only the >> changed files are recompiled. >> >> I'm running Python 2.7 (framework) on a Mac 64bit. (10.6) >> >> Thank you very much for any help with this, > > This is a regression I introduced to fix the fact that the .so are not > rebuilt we you do subtle changes in your project. > > We ended up reverting this, and the changes will be done in > Distutils2. see: http://bugs.python.org/issue8688 for the details.
This issue is more relevant: http://bugs.python.org/issue7894 Ronald _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
