Re: Detect --disable-dependency-tracking in Makefile.am

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Saturday 2023-09-30 05:27, Dave Hart wrote:

>I've added code to the ntp.org Makefile.am files to ensure the static
>utility library libntp.a is up-to-date for each program that uses it, to
>ensure the build is correct.  When building the project, this adds a bunch
>of extra submake invocations which slows down the build.  I'd like to omit
>those when --disable-dependency-tracking is used, to speed one-off builds
>that are done by end-users and packagers.

submake is pretty much independent of and from dependency tracking.

The general direction contemporary projects take is to just not do submake
anymore, because it's a slowdown whether or not deptracking is used.