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#9088
Better java support with new JARS primary
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On Wednesday 27 July 2011, NightStrike wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:04 AM, tsuna <tsunanet <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > What would be nice would be to have the ability to recompile only the
> > .java that changed. So when you edit 2/3 files, then we'd build just
> > that, but in one command.
>
> make can handle this pretty well. If all the source files are listed
> as prerequisites, $? will list all the ones newer than the target.
> So, automake could easily write a rule to run the compiler against
> only the .java files that have changed.
>
Good idea. In fact, this is how recompilation is currently handled by
the JAVA primary (with few small complications to support VPATH builds).
And in the 'java-work' branch, there is also a test `java-rebuild.test'
checking these semantics.
Thanks,
Stefano
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