Greetings. I hope that this is the correct forum for this question. As a quick search on Google will verify, there's quite a bit of interest in being able to have Make use a hash to check if a new build is required, as opposed to a timestamp.
I searched the mailing lists regarding this issue, and found a rather old patch suggestion, but have not been able to determine if a decision was made regarding whether to implement this feature. Nor have I been able to find relevant information on the Make project website, so I'm asking you Make maintainers if you see this as a desirable functionality, or at least worthy of discussion. I can say that it would benefit my colleagues and I enormously, and I'm willing to attempt the implementation if you agree it would be a feature worth adding. So to start with: Is this planned? Has the idea already been rejected, and if so could you point me to the discussion so I can inform myself? If it is planned, or you agree it's worth doing, how can I help? I'm willing to write the code if someone is willing to help me work into the code a little. Until now I'm only a user, not maintainer of Make, and would need some tips about how to fit the functionality into the overall design of Make. Someone to bounce ideas off, and direct questions to would be wonderful. If someone else is working on it already, I'd like to help however I can -- testing, debugging, etc. Thank you for your time. Glen Stark _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
