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Hi!

> What action will make the Make command to recompile a source file?

That depends on the port, there's no generic way to say.

Basically, the port framework adds a wrapper of targets
around the upstream source Makefile and those targets can shield
a recompile from happening.

What sometimes work is this:

cd work/<app>/
make

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