[Bf-committers] Scons faster builds ?

[trip]

But doesn't this just send the process backwards as I have been scolded 
for using scons over make as it is the 'new' thing and the next thing.


On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:35 PM, Alexander Ewering wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, car wrote:
>
>> Question, what happened about the talks to make Scons faster and not 
>> have to compile so many dependencies ?
>> Just curious if it is something still in the plans
>
> Dependancies always need to be compiled. If targets already exist, it 
> shouldn't recompile
> them, and I doubt it does...
>
> The problem is that the parser takes a very long time to decide what 
> actually needs to
> get recompiled.
>
> I would recommend using make over scons. It also has an additional 
> benefit: using
> 'make quicky=source/blender/src' will only go through the files in 
> that specific
> directory, making compile of a single modified file and link a matter 
> of 3 seconds.