Re: CVS keywords and make

[Andy Glew]

> I think the best solution to your problem is to do ``make -t''
> immediately after the checkin (-t tells make to just touch the files
> that are out of date rather than remaking them).  Detecting whether a
> file "really" needs to be remade or not is a very difficult problem that
> is essentially impossible to automate.
> 
> -Larry Jones

Thanks, Larry. Damn, why didn't I think of that?

At least I can automate the 

        cvs update
        ... ensure that no real file changes occurred
        make -t

process. Minor issues with determining the make target
to use.