[Omake] omake not rebuilding ocaml program if dependency changes

Erick Tryzelaar erickt at dslextreme.com
Tue Jan 2 16:03:55 PST 2007


Aleksey Nogin wrote:
> Erick,
>
> Have you tried to run "omake --verbose" to see what does happen? Note
> that the new version of OMake is fairly silent by default (only printing
> the commands that either fail or produce some output).
>   

Yup, thats how I knew it wasn't regenerating.
> Also, if you change the files in an "unimportant" way - that is change
> the way code is formatted without affecting the binaries that the
> compiler is producing, OMake is smart enough to know that the main
> executable does not need to be rebuilt (as the binaries for the
> individual modules stayed the same).
>
> Hope this helps.
>   

Ah, thats it exactly :) I was only changing the formatting. I thought 
omake just hashed the input files, not the output files as well. Does 
omake do this for every file, not just ocaml files?

-e


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