[Distutils] distutils rebuilds EVERYTHING

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello,

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Charles Doutriaux <doutriaux1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> It seems that since python 2.7 the default behaviour of distutils changed.
>
> I have a project with a LOT of .c files used in an extension
>
> It used to be that when rebuilding (python setup.py build install) it
> would only "rebuild" the .o for the C files that actually changed.
>
> Since Python 2.7 this seems to have changed. It knows rebuilds EVERY C
> file in my extension no matter if they changed or not...
>
> I can see why the "Default" behaviour of distutils has been changed, it
> is safer, but is there a way to "revert" to the old way where only the
> changed files are recompiled.
>
> I'm running Python 2.7 (framework) on a Mac 64bit. (10.6)
>
> Thank you very much for any help with this,

This is a regression I introduced to fix the fact that the .so are not
rebuilt we you do subtle changes in your project.

We ended up reverting this, and the changes will be done in
Distutils2. see: http://bugs.python.org/issue8688 for the details.


>
> Charles Doutriaux.
>
>
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