make -k not working

[Thiago Macieira]

Brad King wrote:
>Most make implementations will not re-read dependencies from makefiles
>once building has started (GNU make does in some cases, but other UNIX
>makes, NMake, Borland Make, etc. do not).  If a source file in target B
>is generated by the executable target A then B cannot build even up to
>the link step before A is completed.  Once the file is generated then it
>needs to be included in a dependency scan step.  A flat make would not
>read the resulting dependencies.
>
>I agree that some object files could be built and the link step skipped,
>but encoding this into make would require ANOTHER recursive make per
>target (one to build object files and one to link).  We may eventually
>do this anyway to avoid parallel linking but that is a separate problem.

I understand. The problem of having to workaround the shortcomings and 
limitations of other people's implementations is something we end up 
getting used to.

And maybe we shouldn't: we should try to get the best from other software 
too.

(This was a philosophical discussion)

>As Stephan said, achieving these more advanced analyses of what can
>really build requires a better make implementation.  An unsermake
>generator is not too far fetched, but it will have to wait at least
>until after the 2.4 CMake release.

We can possibly help there once KDE 4 is out. For the moment, it's not 
necessary.

Even without the flat build and starting compilation of the next target's 
sources while the current one hasn't finished linking (which means the 
compile farm starves for a while), cmake building of kdelibs is faster 
than the equivalent unsermake build.

And the reason is the getting rid of libtool.

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