[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] run configure from make if changed

[Joey Parrish]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:28:20PM +0100, Carl F?rstenberg wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:22:46 -0500, D Richard Felker III
> > <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> > > touch .developer
> > > but you're only allowed to do that if you're female, or if the
> > > developer you have in mind is gabu.. :))
> > > 
> > 
> > haha, I think that's a lousy hack, It should be a better (nicer) way
> > to do it. In what corner of a hidden documentetion is this explained?
> 
> None. You have to be a developer to find out ;)
> I found out by myself and run configure maybe a bit more often than
> a few times a year, but not on every update ;)

Besides, the automatic running of configure by Makefile is behavior I've
seen a lot in auto*.  It always makes me angry.  On cygwin, fork is
expensive and my PC is _slow_.  Building from scratch already takes 30
minutes or more for my packages, so if I don't need to reconfigure, I
always want to avoid it.  And the build system is not always smarter
than me to know when I should re-run.

--Joey

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