build a project

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:58:34 +0300, Qian Xu <quian.xu at stud.tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:

> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:44:33 +0300, Qian Xu <quian.xu at stud.tu-ilmenau.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have a project with 300 d-files. I use WAF-tool to build my project.
>>>
>>> If I add one line comment in a d-file from the bottom of the dependency
>>> tree, almost the whole project will be recompiled again. This is very
>>> time consuming.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to detect, whether the modification of a d-file does not
>>> have affect to its dependency?
>>>
>>> Best regards and have a good day
>>> --Qian Xu
>>>
>>
>> You can try comparing DMD-generated .di files from that modified file.
>> There is no need to recompile dependencies if two headers match.
>
> To generate header files takes also much time
>
> --Qian
> 

It's certainly much faster to generate 1 header file than recompile all the dependencies each time.