I don't see why it's wrong to do a stateful change then.
Because it wasn't asked for. There is a separate target to ask for it, so use it.
Because everyone else has to know that to make the doc extraction go faster.
Better than them having to know that typing `make documentation' will change the future build process of their pike, which is really counter-intuitive.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2002-11-27 18:42: Subject: Image.SSL?
I don't see why it's wrong to do a stateful change then.
If you want `make documentation' go faster, why not just do `make dump_modules' manually first? You only have to do it once anyway.
Because everyone else has to know that to make the doc extraction go faster. I see it only as an optimization of that process, nothing more. Anyway, as Nilsson says there are not so many pikes spawned anymore, so it's not such a vital optimization as it was when I wrote it.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS