At the top level, there are no dependencies, it just remakes everything. If you want to remake a specific directory
cd dir; make or a subtree cd rootdir; make tree If you want to rebuild everything in that subtree cd rootdir; make ACTION=libfast tree Matt On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Victor Prosolin <flyaway1212 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > This question is probably more suited for developers rather than users, > but I hope the developers read this as well. > I have been learning PETSc for the last several months because it's used > in another project I am working on. Since I am just learning I rebuild > the library quite often so I have a question about the build system. If > configure.py generates makefiles why does it rebuild the whole thing > every time I type "make" even if I didn't make any changes in > configuration? > > Sincerely, > Victor Prosolin. -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
