Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:23:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make problem... Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006231423130.6532-100000@rac9.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006232032400.7361-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
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There is an option that does what you want... read the man page for make
I dont' remember it offhand
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Andy Farkas wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote:
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> > make utility is behaving strangely on my FreeBSD 3.3 machine. Whenever I
> > change some file and do make, it is compiling every file rather than
> > compiling only the changed file. On a different machine of same release,
> > make is working properly.
>
> I've seen this happen when the date/time is wrong... make sure the files
> have sane timestamps... 'touch *' may help...
>
> >
> > I guess that there might be some option to make to disable this behaviour.
> > Could some one help me to know why make is behaving like this and how do I
> > avoid it? Especially it is very annoying when compiling kernel, as it
> > takes lot of time to compile for even a single file changes.
> >
> > thanks
> > --gb
> >
>
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> Andy Farkas
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