On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:17:42PM -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Paul Deppe writes: > > A related question - after rebuilding with the makefile system, is there a > > way to "make install" only the files which have changed? For example, > > suppose there is only a change to a .cxx file in plib/ssg. I do a "make", > > which rebuilds only libplibssg.a. But when I do a "make install", all the > > header files are also installed with new dates. Then when I rebuild SimGear > > and FlightGear, make thinks that the header files have changed and > > recompiles everything which depends on the header files (which is just about > > everything). This effect ripples down from plib to SimGear to FlightGear to > > Atlas. > > > > It would save a lot of compile time if one could "make install" only the > > files which have changed. Is there a way to do this? > > Beyond identifying and copying just the changed files individually > yourself by hand, I've never seen a way in unix to do this. > > If you know that there were changes only to a particular subdirectory, > you could cd into and run make; make install from there. You don't > have to run make or make install only from the top level directory. > That's one way you can often somewhat limit the number of changed > install files and contain the cascading dependency effect. > > Otherwise, it's a good time to go refill your cup of coffee or maybe > poke your head out into the living room and confirm to your family > that you still exist. (Expect some surprised looks the first few > times you do this though.) :-)
You wouldn't have any personal experience, here, would you? ;-) > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project > Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
