It should be noted that there are published methods for hash reliance within the current syntax, e.g. http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/rebuilding-when-files-checksum-changes.
I haven’t ever tried this, in fact I haven’t even read the article in detail, but you might want to play with it before undertaking to enhance make. -David On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Glen Stark <m...@glenstark.net> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
