Developing with ENABLE_FINAL build speed

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi Peter,

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 07:45, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> When working on KDE one mostly does not work
> on all projects and files at the same time,
> which means these files will not be touched,
> and they could be build with the
> KDE4_ENABLE_FINAL flag.
>
> The problem using KDE4_ENABLE_FINAL is that
> the projects with the touched files have to
> rebuild completely on each change.
> (With KDE4_ENABLE_FINAL a file is generated
> which includes all cpp files.)
>
> The idea of attached patch is to manually
> exclude some files from the generated
> all-in-one file.
>
> So it is possible to a build with a speedup
> of factor 3 to 4 and to work on some files
> without waiting ages on each change, best
> of both worlds.
>
> How it works:
> the new macro KDE4_CREATE_MERGED_FILES creates
> two files, one file which contains all untouched
> files and one all touched. By default the file
> with the touched files is 'empty', no code is
> included (like using KDE4_ENABLE_FINAL).
>
> Moving one file from the const to the touched file
> works by commenting out a macro definition and a
> include (because the dependency scan of cmake is
> macro insensible, or I'm wrong?).

sorry, but managing these sets of files manually is nothing I want to have in 
the repository.
So while a nice idea, please don't commit.

Thanks
Alex
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