RFC: KHTML "modular" build

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:17, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 10:44, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Monday 17 July 2006 00:14, Matt Broadstone wrote:
> > > Attached is a patch to make khtml build in pieces. It breaks all the
> > > subdirs (but for ecma right now) into static libs and then uses those
> > > to build khtml. I wanted to ask you all whether you thought this was a
> > > good idea.. I mainly did it because I was sick of rebuilding all of
> > > khtml every time I made a small change in my soc project under
> > > ecma/debugger, but I have talked to people who think the A) longer
> > > link times B) reverting to autotools-like behavior here, are unwanted
> > > sideeffects of this change. Anyway, let me know what you all think.
> >
> > I think it's excellent. Probably will help the cmake-times as well.
>
> I don't understand how it can possibly help. Rebuilding a .a is not enough,
> one needs to relink the .so that uses it anyway. So in all cases one needs
> to go up to the khtml level and type make there, and it has to relink
> libkhtml.so, just like it would have to do if using .o files instead of .a
> - so what do we gain?

From seeing cmake try to analyze unity, I assume it is using quadratic time.

Also all the time it uses to analyze could be paralyzed by compiling another 
module.

`Allan