Re: GNU make to consider files checksum

2009-09-29 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Philip Guenther writes: > (Have you measured how often this sort of thing would save > recompilation and/or relinking and how much time it would save then? > What's the comparison to how much time would be spent calculating the > checksums? If it saves a minute once every 100 compiles but costs

Re: GNU make to consider files checksum

2009-09-29 Thread Tim Murphy
Hi, I think that checksumming might benefit some targets. It would be nice to be able to implement different "methods" for different targets - because not all methods work well in all circumstances. I have one example where every single file in a huge build includes 1 particular header file. Th