Re: Staging broken.

[David Kastrup]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:03 AM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> > So the dependency isn't correctly satisfied and we would always run it
>> > from then on, effectively slowing down our build system.  And that is
>> > why I don't want to deal with this kind of issues - this should come
>> > with the build system for free.
>>
>> Well, since we have our own build system, making it come for free is
>> sort of our own job.
>>
>>
> I think it's easier if we give up on intelligence here, and just recommend
> ccache.

That does not seem like much of a help for the problem case at hand.

> I think ccache uses content checksums, so even if the file is touched,
> it can get the compilation result from cache if it was seen before.

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