[Interest] all of QtBase depends on qregexp.cpp (or almost)?

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 30 de janeiro de 2018 02:20:19 PST René J. V. Bertin wrote:
> Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> > Probably it triggers rebuilding of qmake, which may trigger further
> > rebuilds down the line somehow.
> 
> "Fun" fact, after touching qregexp.cpp :
> 
> %> (cd build/qtbase/src/corelib ; make)
> 
> Only rebuilds QtCore
> 
> %> (cd build/qtbase/src ; make)
> 
> rebuilds all of QtBase, including the bootstrapping part.

qregexp.cpp is part of the bootstrap library, so that rebuilds the library, 
which in turn rebuilds moc and uic, and those in turn cause he moc and uic 
outputs to be rebuilt. And since QtCore relinks, all libraries need to be 
relinked too.

It shouldn't recompile other .cpp, though.

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