* Andreas Schwab wrote on Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:47:20AM CEST: > Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@medozas.de> writes: > > > Well, automake (unfortunately?) does not currently issue a recompile > > when the compiler command changed. > > It would be really cool to have that, though. > > But that should be optional. I don't want to do a complete rebuild just > because I want to do a quick recompile of a single object file with > different options.
I think the general idea this is hinting at is a dependency on the full build rules and on the dependency tree itself. IIRC Solaris make has a related feature, and there have been proposals for this for GNU make (maybe a SoC one?), but AFAIK no code yet. Anyway such an approach would sound like a more useful idea to me. Cheers, Ralf