Small change triggers 8990 file compiling?

[Erik Joelsson]

On 2012-10-12 09:51, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> The other issue, which we should fix, concerns javah header 
> generation. In the new build we use a new feature in javac which 
> automatically outputs the jni headers for all classes with native 
> methods or a special annotation. The problem is that javac doesn't 
> check if new headers were actually needed, so it will touch all the 
> headers every time, which make will interpret as the headers having 
> changed and so will recompile all the native sources that depend on 
> them. I believe sjavac is going to fix this problem too, otherwise we 
> will need to add some logic for it in the makefiles.
>
I just pushed a fix for this for the batch compile mode. Fredrik 
confirmed that sjavac has this functionality too.

/Erik