Re: the make phases logic

[Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@jakemsr.com>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:46:11PM +0200, franciszek holop wrote:
> hello,
> 
> sometimes i just do a make fetch and/or make extract.
> lately i wanted to take a look at some files in the
> php sources so i did a make extract and it started to
> wildly download extensions and dependencies.
> 
> i was wondering why are the compile dependencies
> evaluated at this stage?

To save disk space.  Install and then clean dependencies, then
extract the sources.  I believe that's how bulk package builds work.

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