On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:00 AM, NightStrike <nightstr...@gmail.com> 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.
Haha, I had forgotten about $? http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-g_t_0024_003f-944 Seems like $? is portable, I wonder why I never used it much. Thanks for the pointer. -- Benoit "tsuna" Sigoure Software Engineer @ www.StumbleUpon.com
