Gary Mills wrote:
I've noticed for some time that whenever I type `make' in the Cyrus source tree, it always recompiles something. A repeated make should evenually stop compiling but this one never does. The worst offenders are the various perl Makefiles which rebuild Makefile from Makefile.PL every time, instead of only doing it when it's out of date. This
I'm not a Perl guy, so I don't know if this is necessary or not.
causes the perl modules to be recompiled. As well, imap/Makefile recreates xversion.h each time, resulting in more recompiles.
We recreate xversion.h (and imapd as a result) so we get an accurate CVS timestamp in imapd for version reporting.
This behavior is annoying because I build the Cyrus software on a development server but then install it on other servers where there is no compiler and the source tree is mounted read-only. This breaks `make install', which should only install things, not recompile them. Can this be fixed, or am I condemned to hack Makefiles myself?
A 'make install' shouldn't compile anything if all of the generated files already exist. I would consider this a bug and would gladly accept a patch which fixes this behavior.
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