Sorry for the earlier mail: Send got pressed on a half-cooked mail :-) Heres a cleanup. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Build-tools like scons rethink make's "older timestamp => rebuild" model. You may want to look at one such. >From http://www.scons.org/architecture/index.html > (S)Cons decides if a file was out-of-date by using MD5 checksums of the > contents of > files, not timestamps. SCons also comes to mind because you are using make for R not (traditional) programming [Again from the above link] > Most of the build tools just mentioned were written by programmers and for > programmers. .... > (SCons arose from a) > design contest with the express goal of producing a set of next-generation > utilities, > including a build tool, that would be accessible not only to programmers but > also to > computer users such as physical scientists. [Disclaimer: Ive not tried Scons myself]
