On 18 September 2013 23:54, Wyatt <wyatt.epp@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 11:45:55 UTC, Manu wrote:
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The problem I've always had with make-based build systems is rebuild
dependencies... how do any of those build systems go performing a minimal rebuild,

As in "only rebuild the files that changed"? In my experience, that comes with using make. Even really ancient versions.

I've had lots of problems in the past where a header included by another header doesn't prompt the dependent code to be rebuilt, and I ended up in a conservative state of rebuild-all-ing every time... :/

Maybe I should try working with that environment more...

or incremental linking?

This is a bit harder. If you're using the Gold linker, -Wl,--incremental sounds like your medicine, though I'm not sure if Gold is ready for primetime, yet.

How does that work? Can you re-link while paused in the debugger, and then continue with the new code?