On 18 September 2013 23:54, Wyatt <wyatt....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 11:45:55 UTC, Manu wrote: > ? > >> The problem I've always had with make-based build systems is rebuild >> dependencies... how do any of those build systems go performing a minimal >> rebuild, >> > > As in "only rebuild the files that changed"? In my experience, that comes > with using make. Even really ancient versions.
I've had lots of problems in the past where a header included by another header doesn't prompt the dependent code to be rebuilt, and I ended up in a conservative state of rebuild-all-ing every time... :/ Maybe I should try working with that environment more... > or incremental linking? >> > > This is a bit harder. If you're using the Gold linker, -Wl,--incremental > sounds like your medicine, though I'm not sure if Gold is ready for > primetime, yet. How does that work? Can you re-link while paused in the debugger, and then continue with the new code?
