[Box Backup-dev] Build system

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Ben,

I have a question about the Box build system. All the libraries (common.a, 
etc.) have make targets that depend on the dep_modules target, which is a 
phony target. As a result, make always rebuilds the library.

This is quite slow on Cygwin, and I'd like to avoid it if possible. I can 
see why rebuilding an executable might require its dependencies to be 
built first, but I don't think that's true for a library. It should be 
possible to compile the module files and assemble the library even if its 
dependencies aren't built first.

Could we safely remove the dep_modules dependency from library Makefiles?

Cheers, Chris.
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