Source not regenerated after new kconfig_compiler executable

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed May 23 04:33:58 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 22 May 2007 14:59, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Don't know if it's intended or a bug in the dependency chain. The output
> > from kconfig_compiler is not regenerated after I installed a new
> > kconfig_compiler executable. Therefore I still got warnings about
> > kstaticdeleter until I delete the sources by myself :)
>
> Yeah but would you really want to see all kconfig_compiler-generated files
> re-created every time kdelibs is reinstalled - even though in 99% of the
> cases
>
> >from now on, the logic inside kconfig_compiler won't have changed?
>
> (but it will have been relinked because kdecore changed).
>
> Maybe we need to install a cmake file with the version number of
> kconfig_compiler, in order to trigger a recompilation only when the version
> of kconfig_compiler is newer than the version that was used to generate the
> current generated files...

Adding the dependency to the installed kconfig_compiler shouldn't be a  
problem, if we really want that.
But I'm not sure we actually want it, as Christian and Matt also suggest.

Bye
Alex



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