streamlining build process.

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Mar-2000, Ben Sapp <address@hidden> wrote:

| I would like to streamline the Octave build process.  I do not want to
| go through the effort of doing it if the changes will not be accepted
| though.   

I'd be happy to have changes so that the libraries are built from sets
of object files instead of by adding one object file at a time, but
only if the dependency information is still managed correctly.  I
don't think that is a problem for the libraries in the liboctave and
src directories, but it may be a bit tricky to do for libcruft, which
has the source in multiple subdirectories.

Making parallel builds possible would also be nice.

jwe