Re: check : build dependency (was: Re: what exactly needs localedata_en library ?)

On Friday 13 of April 2012, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 04:35:27PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 of April 2012, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:13:30PM +0200, Matúš Kukan wrote:
> > > > Or do people use make check with demand to build only what is
> > > > necessary for tests and nothing more ?
> > >
> > > Well, make check is for after a successful build to check the result,
> > > no?
> >
> >  That's correct. So the next build will be almost a no-op, right? And
> > there's
>
> Not right now :)
> Especially bad on slow archs.

 There's always the -o option to make. And, assuming this would avoid all the 
build breakages because of race conditions, I'd assume the time spent on this 
still worth the time not spent hunting random breakages.

> >  Fixed that for ya :).
>
> When/how? (I don't see anything obvious from you on libreoffice-commits,
> but I might be blind)

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> What especially is  bad is when make install (thankfully gone) or make
> check rebuild unneeded stuff which gets rebuilt on every pass.

 What especially is bad is when unneeded stuff gets rebuilt on every pass.
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 Lubos Lunak
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