Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] MXE suddenly wants to rebuild everything

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/06/13 17:57, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 02/06/2013, at 12:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Not sure what I did.  Perhaps changed the timestamps of some files
> > by mistake.  MXE now wants to rebuild *everything*, starting from
> > GCC.
> >
> > How do I prevent that?  It takes several hours to rebuild and it
> > would serve no purpose in this case.
>
> GCC was updated to 4.8.1 in the last day or so, that may be what
> you're seeing (since it only started from there). To avoid
> rebuilding, "touch usr/installed/gcc" or "touch usr/installed/*" if
> you know you really don't want to rebuild. I'd recommend starting
> with a "make clean", however, as Qt and Qt5 were also updated and gcc
> is quick compared to those.
>
> Mingw-w64 support was also just added a few hours ago with updates to
> gcc for the new targets. To avoid rebuilds in the new multi-target
> scenario "touch usr/*/installed/gcc".

Yeah, already tried "touch usr/installed/*", but it doesn't help.

My MXE tree is about a year old though (I have tons of settings in the 
*.mk files that really I don't want to lose) and I don't track it with 
Git, so the new stuff is definitely not there.