Re: [Monotone-devel] package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently, the build system rebuilds the monotone binary
> every time you say "make" because it regenerates the
> package_full_revision.txt file even though nothing has
> changed.
>
> The problem I see is that I run "make" under my normal user,
> then I switch to superuser and say "make install". Thus, I
> end up recompiling a part of the software as 'root' and I
> also end up with ownership of the files in the directory
> mixed up because of that.
>
> Is it possible to get this fixed so that the file is only
> regenerated when something has actually changed?
>
> Peter

I am willing to assist with a conversion to scons[1] which would elimnate 
problems like this and also enable builds like 'scons -j 45'.

[1] www.scons.org

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