Probably a silly question but asking it anyway regarding Make

[James McDonald]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Quoth James McDonald:
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>>folks,
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>>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?
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>This is what make was designed to do - update only the bits that changed
>and anything that depends on those bits.
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>Kurt
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So basically it's been taking me 8+ hours to compile mozilla from 
scratch everytime for no good reason....

Darn ;)