[fpc-devel] Unit dependencies

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 3 14:05:08 CET 2026


Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Di., 3. Feb. 2026, 11:28:

> It seems, that if I make any change in  a unit file, even if it is just a
> comment, then the change
> triggers a recompile of all dependent units. In theory, only a relevant
> change of the interface ABI
> of a unit would need to trigger a recompile of dependent units. Has this
> ever been considered  (or
> even implemented) ?
>

That is how it's already supposed to work. Due to reworking in the related
parts of the compiler that doesn't work correctly anymore and needs to be
fixed.

Regards,
Sven

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