bauermann

I always dreaded having to do modifications in Makefile.in (e.g., adding a new file to the compilation) because then I’d have to nuke the build directory (you do build your project outside of the source tree, right? ) and run configure again for the Makefile to be generated and then rebuild everything again.

Well, of course this is a dumb approach to the problem, and today I just found out (almost by accident) the smarter way to do it: run the config.status script in the build directory. It will regenerate the Makefile and you can just type make from there, compiling or recompiling just what’s needed.

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 01:31 and is filed under english with tags autoconf, autotools, development, hint. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.