make clean is usually necessary only when something in src changes. Just saying "make" (without the "clean") can save you 1 round of building.
But yes, even a 1-character source code change to base requires rebuilding julia. --Tim On Saturday, September 20, 2014 03:01:27 PM John Myles White wrote: > If you change Base, you do need to regenerate the system image. I always do > this by running make clean and make, but it might be possible to do things > faster than that process. > > — John > > On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to add "info" calls to Base functions to debug an issue. These > > don't make it to my screen, and I don't know whether they are getting > > lost somewhere or whether Julia is ignoring my modifications. Do I need > > to re-build and re-install Julia after modifying files in Base? > > > > If so: Can I avoid pre-compiling files? In particular, "osutils.jl" takes > > a long time to build. > > > > -erik
