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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