Re: Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:44 PM, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems -
Hamburg Germany <[email protected]> wrote:

> With full deps in one process, bar{1-99}.cxx can be compiled right from
> the start, because only the linking of libbar has to be done after the
> linking of libfoo. A recursive makefile (one make per lib) makes the
> deps a lot rougher: It will only start to compile bar{1-99}.cxx and
> friends after it compiled all foo{1-99}.cxx and linked libfoo.

This is a fair point. I don't know whether CMake does this as it is an
implementation detail of its makefile generator. But I still say that
the only usable performance results are obtained through testing and
measuring.