Re: Debugging dependencies

[Brad Garcia]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Steven Knight wrote:

> Unfortunately, this is part of the information that gets lost in
> aggregating all of the dependencies into a single MD5 signature.  Cons
> can only tell that the calculated signature is different from the
> old one, and that the file must therefore be rebuilt.  It can't tell
> directly which dependency's signature is the one that caused the
> aggregate signature to be different.  I'd welcome suggestions for ways
> this could be accomplished...

Well, we *do* know when any particular file is rebuilt, right?

When printing out the dependency tree (-d), it might be useful enough
to simply mark each entry (with an asterisk?) that has been recreated.

Brad Garcia