[fpc-devel] Unit dependencies

[Sven Barth]

Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Di., 3. Feb. 2026, 20:07:

> Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2/3/26 11:27, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote:
> >> 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) ?
> >
> > I'm currently looking into it.
>
> That's great !
>
> Another question. Has anybody considered running the external assembly
> (e.g. on macOS) in a
> separate process ? That would greatly reduce build times of large projects.
>

Ehm... The external assembly *is* run in a separate process, that's the
point of it being *external*.

Regards,
Sven

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