--disable-dependency-tracking

[Toby Peterson]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 09:59, Ryan Schmidt<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:56, Toby Peterson wrote:
>
>>> I don't know what dependency tracking does, but since the default is to
>>> enable it, I assume it's useful for something. Does anybody know what
>>> it's
>>> for or what consequences disabling it could have?
>>
>> The primary consequence is that builds would be faster. :-)
>
> Ok. What does it do when it is enabled? Why did whoever designed the feature
> decide that most people would want it enabled?

It generates some additional dependency information to make future
builds faster. However, since we almost always do clean builds it
doesn't serve a useful purpose.

- Toby