On 17/01/2008, Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Kimi wrote:
>
> > Is groff important and if not does any one know how to disconnect
> > groff from the build?
> >
> > keeps failing about the same part; if it is not cmap.d, it's color.d
> > under gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/libs/libgroff.
>
> IIRC the build goes something like
>
>         make clean
>         make objdir
>         make includes
>         make depend
>         make libraries
>         make
>
> from the top level. So, you are having problems in making depedencies, you
> haven't actually built anything as yet..  if it is to do with timestamps
> over NFS then you are going to get more problems even if you skip groff.
>

I understand.

> So, is there a way to skip depends?
>
> If you are not modifying the source and are starting with no object files
> then everything will get built anyway.. right?
>

from what I know, yeah, sounds reasonable. I'm atleast 80% sure I had
this problem without NFS too, but I will check tomorrow.

> iain
>


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Regards,
 Kimi