Probably a silly question but asking it anyway regarding Make
Kurt Wall
kwall
Mon May 17 11:48:20 PDT 2004
Quoth James McDonald:
> folks,
>
> After compiling a program the first time if you update the source later
> and then rerun make again will it just update the bits that are changed
> or do you need to do a complete make clean and start the compile from
> scratch?
This is what make was designed to do - update only the bits that changed
and anything that depends on those bits.
Kurt
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