tech-userlevel: Library rebuilds (was Re: lib/9702: Makefile lossage for crypto-intl)

Subject: Library rebuilds (was Re: lib/9702: Makefile lossage for crypto-intl)
To: None <tech-crypto@netbsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/14/2000 10:36:00

On tech-crypto,
>>>>>> 	There is a problem with the Makefiles for the crypto-intl stuff.
>>>>>> 	It remakes things too often.
>>> I dug a bit deeper - it's asn1_compile that's the problem. [...]
I've noticed something very similar with "ordinary" libraries (which is
why I'm taking it to tech-userlevel). If I do a "make build" in
/usr/src and it gets down into the "make dependall" step and then falls
over, then if I do a "make dependall" in /usr/src it insists on
rebuilding libraries as it walks through the tree, even for libraries
for which there's no need for a rebuild.
Rather annoying. Fortunately, since it doesn't reinstall the
libraries, most *programs* don't get rebuilt as a result...but things
that have "private" libraries do.
This happens on at least alpha and sparc. The source tree in question
dates from 2000年02月19日.
So far it hasn't irritated me enough to make me ferret out why.
					der Mouse
			 mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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