Re: the make phases logic

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>]

On 1 Jul 2004, at 19:46, 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?  i just wanted to take a
> look at the code, and after all, extracting does
> not guarantee compiling, or does it?

remember EXTRACT_CASES ... to do otherwise would require two sets of 
dependency checks and compilations.  It's not too onerous to just set 
NO_DEPENDS for the occasion when you want to inspect a port source 
code.

-anil