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From: arnold@skeeve.com
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Subject: Re: Alternative C compilers on x86_64 Linux?
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> The whole point of "make" is to avoid recompiling things that
> do not need to be recompiled. By repeatedly doing "make distclean"
> you are circumventing this system.
>
> Find out why make is not compiling everything that it needs to.

I am purposely cleaning up the directory so that builds occur from
scratch as I *** switch between branches *** in the git repo. Especially on
the 'stable' and 'master' branches I have to be sure that anyone
checking out those branches will have things work for them.

I am thinking this discussion has gotten out of hand and I apologize
for it.  All I'm looking for is a fast compiler for development
since I on purpose do a lot of configure + make from scratch.
I don't care about code quality; just that 'make check' passes.

Since posting, I have repaired tcc to the point where I can use it,
so I'm happy. The PCC issue remains to be resolved; gawk's code changed
(the dfa module from grep) and PCC stopped working. I will eventually
go to the trouble of isolating the problem but it's probably a few
hours' work and that's time I don't have right now.

Thanks to everyone for their replies.

Arnold