You might try compiling the dependencies one at a time; then when it comes to 
the final package, you're only compiling that one.

David

--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] installing from source on OS X 10.6.4 seems to 
> rebuild stuff that's already built
> To: "fink-beginners" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 2:30 PM
> 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
> 
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