Dependency loops considered harmful?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 11:25:13 UTC 2008


On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:05:22 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:

> The problem with using rpm to install software you develop is that you
> need to do a *full build* every time whenever you change something.
> Even with a caching compiler, that can take a long time. Think Qt for
> instance.

Not true. It's certainly not mandatory. You can simply tar your full
development tree (including built object files) and only re-run make
&& make install in the spec file without starting from scratch. That's
enough to package up the installed files with RPM.

Off-topic, though.




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