On 8/1/10 5:07 PM, Gary Pajer wrote: > I'm working on getting KDE installed. When executing > fink install kdebase4-workspace-x11 > > the thing grinds and grinds, and finally fails after 20 minutes or more. > (reported elsewhere) > > Here's my question: > If I make a change and try again it takes 20 minutes (or more) again. It's > recompiling stuff that it just compiled. > > Is that the expected behavior? Is there a way to prevent compilation of > stuff that hasn't changed?
If a package fails to build completely and correctly, Fink will recompile it from scratch, because there is no way of knowing if the initial failure has been corrected. In fact, the temporary build directory is completely wiped before the new compilation attempt takes place. Fink is deterministic, and works very hard to make sure that a compilation for package-version-revision is exactly the same every time. If restarting a failed compilation attempt was possible, that has the potential to generate very confused packages. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
