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On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:56:12AM +0000, muntaqa wrote:
> For example, if I make a change to Qt configuration thru the "ptxdist
> menuconfig" command and add another demo application to the list.
> When I issue ptxdist go command, it rebuilds the whole QT package
> which takes more than an hour.  Is this something specific to my setup
> perhaps OR ptxdist normally operates this way?

If you have changed a package, it is being rebuilt.

> Is there a setting somewhere which may change this behavior to rebuild
> incrementally based on what has been built already?
>
> This ends up costing me quite a bit of time just to make s small
> change to my configuration.

Qt is a bit special as it contains a lot of demo applications.
Improvements for the dependency generation, or even split up into two
packages (qt + demos) may be an option -> patches are welcome.

rsc
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