Re: Is there a difference in (n)make between windows and unix.

Hi Stas,

Should editing ANY source level file (.h, .c type files) result in a make?

Theoretically, it should. But it's as good as makefile dependencies, of course. I'm not sure PHP configure script generates dependencies for all files...

I spent some time looking into this yesterday (Richard and I had one of those off-list exchanges). Not sure if *nix compilers work in the same way, but under Windows nmake treats any headers included in source files as "implicit prerequisites". Only explicit header declarations are compiled in their own right. I'd *assume* that this is what knocked almost 15 minutes off the build time when moving from our .dsp files (which had explicit header declarations) to the config.w32 setup. Keeping in mind that headers are far less likely to be altered than C files once an API is stable, there doesn't seem much point in making the build slower or the task of writing config.w32 files more complex just so's those undertaking active development won't need to make clean and re-run configure now and again. - Steph

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