Warren Young wrote:
Bob Rossi wrote:
I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my
make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?)
No, a Makefile's install target normally just contains a series of
commands for installing everything, without checking if it exists
first. If the install target depends on anything, it's usually
basic top-level targets like 'all'. There's no technology limit that
prevents us from making it incremental. All you'd have to do is write
a rule for every file that gets installed, and make the install target
depend on all of them. Tedious to do by hand, but automake is good at
doing such things for you.
There is an item in the not yet released Automake NEWS that I guess is
related to this:
- install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file
(and its time stamps) if the contents did not change.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=6fcc1a535b0bbab7333230d780fde8f194836131;hb=HEAD
Cheers,
--
Peter Johansson
svndigest maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/svndigest
yat maintainer, http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat
