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Re: [PATCH] Allow JavaHL to be installed separately from main Subversion package (was: Re: [PATCH] Fix cross-library installation dependencies for libsvn_fs and libsvn_fs_base)

From: David James <staple_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2004-09-19 18:14:49 CEST

> I'm actually interested in the methodology of your first patch, which
> split up the install rules into one rule for each file. Obviously we
> can't use the timestamps of what's in the installed area, but having a
> separate install rule for each library would mean that (a) we could get
> rid of the five separate library types in favor of a single "lib" type,
> and (b) we could stop relying on "make" evaluating dependencies in
> order, so that our Makefile would have a hope of operating in parallel
> mode. (Not that one would ever really want to use "make -j install",
> but it's still more elegant not to rely on dependency order.)
>
> Since we can't use files from the install area as rule targets, the
> separate rule for each file would have to be a fake target name like
> install-<filename>.
Great idea. Anyone opposed to me implementing this?

Cheers,

David

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