Re: INSTALL

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:23:49PM +0200, Martin MOKREJ? wrote:
> Hi,
>   there're some problems to reach you. :(
> 
> I've one more note the the original e-mail attached:
> 
> cd ../objects;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include 
> -I/usr/local/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O3 -n32 -TARG:platform22  -c 
> ../ncurses/./base/safe_sprintf.c
...
> Couldn't the make process do chdir() just once and then compile?
> I think it really slows down the process.

in principle, yes - but thinking about it, not portably.  What I have in
mind is that this could be done via a recursive make.  But there are some
limitations - generally 'make' programs cannot be relied upon to look-ahead
to decide if they would need to do the recursion.  That would hamper use of
"make -n" for example.

But it's worth investigating (I'm not sure how much it does slow things down).

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