On Wednesday 27 July 2011, NightStrike wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:04 AM, tsuna <tsuna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What would be nice would be to have the ability to recompile only the > > .java that changed. So when you edit 2/3 files, then we'd build just > > that, but in one command. > > make can handle this pretty well. If all the source files are listed > as prerequisites, $? will list all the ones newer than the target. > So, automake could easily write a rule to run the compiler against > only the .java files that have changed. > Good idea. In fact, this is how recompilation is currently handled by the JAVA primary (with few small complications to support VPATH builds). And in the 'java-work' branch, there is also a test `java-rebuild.test' checking these semantics.
Thanks, Stefano
