Re: asynchronous make(1), anyone?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:17:52PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:02:19PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > Figuring it out from the filesystem is best because the editor is not
> > the only agent who may modify your sources.  For example, source control
> > software will make changes.  One may cp/ln/mv a source file.
> 
> Figuring it out from the filesystem doesn't work reliable. Consider
> changing a header file in the middle of a build...

That would be a problem with a solution that uses make(1) as-is.  One
may have to be more flexible than that.

Dave

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