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, an
Hi.
Notice that I am not a GNU Make developer.
The feature which checks updates depend on file content differ of each file is
not implemented on GNU Make currently.
(I think it won't be implemented because timestamp-based update checking is
normal behavior of Make.)
If you want to check update
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 14:42 +0100, Glen Stark wrote:
> Is this planned? Has the idea already been rejected, and if so could
> you point me to the discussion so I can inform myself?
There is no formal planning around it right now, and it's not at the top
of my TODO list for GNU make.
> If it is p
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 11:45 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> * Do we really need to hash the file? Maybe simply expanding the
> current checking is sufficient. For example, if in addition to
> mod time we also considered the size of the file (and maybe
> other things maint
