[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] rfalke: Add dependency to rebuilt all language files...

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:55:25AM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > I'm not sure that this was wise. The making of all the languages files
> > extends the _every_ make quite bit. I don't think this is an
> > improvement.
> 
> For me, it only causes a msgfmt --stat call for each *.po, which does not
> take much time.

$ cd po
$ touch ../common/city.c
$ time make
...
real    0m28.578s
user    0m26.450s
sys     0m1.240s
$

~30s is a long time. Compare this to the (thanks to ccache) cached compile:

$ cd common
$ touch city.c
$ time make
...
real    0m0.959s
user    0m0.780s
sys     0m0.170s
$

        Raimar