Re: Avoiding or speeding up full tree recompilations

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2010/12/13 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> On 13-Dec-2010, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | 2010/12/13 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:
> | > On 13-Dec-2010, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> |
> | Ok, having some CPU cycles to spare, I just decided to try a little
> | experiment. After finishing my previous build, I touched
> | src/OPERATORS/module.mk, and this did indeed ensue in a recompilation
> | of, as far as I can tell, everything under src/, perhaps a few other
> | things
>
> This happens because when you touch that file, you cause the
> src/Makefile to change, and generated files like version.h, mxarray.h,
> and graphics.h depend that Makefile.
>
> Does the following patch help?

Yes, thank you. I'll try to understand why it works later.

- Jordi G. H.