... someone, not sure who, has worked out how to solve this problem
within the existing capabilities of GNU make. ... it would still be
best if GNU make had (optional) native support.
... or, at the very least, its documentation included a description of
how to solve the problem, within the
I don't know the answer except to point out that someone, not sure who, has
worked out how to solve this problem within the existing capabilities of
GNU make. I believe this clever technique is now used in the Linux kernel
makefiles and a number of other places. This presumably lessens the
Hi Folks,
Greetings from the GNU Volunteer Coordinators[0].
There's an item in the GNU task list[1] that reads Add features to
GNU Make to record the precise rule with which each file was last
recompiled; then recompile any file if its rule in the makefile has
changed. This task has been in the
