Re: GMAKE 3.81 vs GMAKE 4.2

[nikhil jain]

Correct, but how do i know its a incremental or full ? any ENV is set which
says it is incremental or full ?

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 9:38 PM Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:

> On 2022-05-05 06:42, nikhil jain wrote:
> > Hi Pablo,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > I actually do not know how many targets will be compiled (we have more
> than
> > 10k targets in a Makefile). So, is there a straightforward way to know
> that
> > only a single code file is changed and it will be an incremental build
> and
> > not a full build ?
>
> It sounds like make has to walk all the rules and determine whether all
> non-PHONY targets required updating. If so, it was a complete build.
>
> If even one real target is skipped because it is up-to-date, it's
> an incremental build.
>