A couple of questions about the new build system

[Phil Race]

 > If you touch a header fie, the build is supposed to notice and "do 
the right thing".

It did not do so. If I touched a C file, no problem, but not so for the 
header file.
This was observed on Solaris 10 SPARC.

-phil.

On 3/28/2013 2:45 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> On 03/28/2013 02:29 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>> 1. Why do we have both --with-cups and --with-cups-include ?
>> All we use is the header files so the latter is what matters and
>> I'm not sure which one the build system prefers if both are set.
>>
>> 2. In the old build I could do
>>    cd make/sun/font
>>    make clean
>>    make all
>>
>> Is there anything analagous to 'make clean' here,where I can have a 
>> level of comfort
>> that all generated files related to building just a particular area 
>> are removed.
>> This was useful after I touched a header file.
>> Now when I touch a header file, the new build system doesn't notice,
>> so I have to manually purge, but  nor does it (as far as I can see) 
>> give me
>> a target to purge that component. To do this I need to go hunt down
>> the directory with the object files and remove them.
>> Is there something better I can do ?
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>
> If you touch a header fie, the build is supposed to notice and "do the 
> right thing".
>
> -- Jon