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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/2015 2:54 PM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 20/11/2015 21:56, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>> On 11/20/2015 3:08 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am building kicad on windows msys/mingw32
>>> Everytime I update (pull) my development bzr branch it will  "generate version string header" and rebuild all kicad. :S
>>
>> It should only rebuild when there is a commit change to your branch.
>> Even when it does change, it should only update the version string,
>> recompile the common library, and relink all of the binaries to the
>> updated common library.
> 
> This is true on Linux, but unfortunately, not on Windows:
> Each time the bzr version has changed a full compilation of all files in
> Kicad sources is made.

This sounds like an issue with make on windows.  I don't know how else
this could happen unless cmake build scripts is changing the time stamp
on one of header files used by most of kicad such as config.h.

> 
> 
>  This is the normal behavior to ensure that the
>> version string matches the repo version.
>>
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to flag to skip this step?
>>
>> You could force it by setting KICAD_BUILD_VERSION during configuration,
>> then the version string will always be what was defined.  If you send
>> bug report, the version info copied from the Help->Copy Version
>> Information will be incorrect.  You really shouldn't do this if you
>> don't need to.  This option is for stable release builds.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Mario
> 
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