From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 11:24:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD4537B61D for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gollucci@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (root@rac9.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.149]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16712; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:23:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08097; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:23:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gollucci@localhost) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08093; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:23:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac9.wam.umd.edu: gollucci owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:23:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Philip M. Gollucci" To: Andy Farkas Cc: "G.B.Naidu" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make problem... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is an option that does what you want... read the man page for make I dont' remember it offhand ***************************************************************************** Philip M. Gollucci E-mail : gollucci@wam.umd.edu Phone : 301.226.5280 ***************************************************************************** On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote: > > > 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 > > > > -- > > :{ andyf@speednet.com.au > > Andy Farkas > System Administrator > Speednet Communications > http://www.speednet.com.au/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message