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		chrisseaton on Oct 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD For example it checks the last modified time on all your files, every build. This doesn’t scale at a certain point. More modern build systems have better ways of doing this.

hhmc on Oct 28, 2018 [–]

How to modern build systems check for file updates?

Nzen on Oct 28, 2018 | [–]

I can't speak for other build systems, but tup [0] provides the option to listen for filechanges via the fuse library.

[0] http://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html <edit substitutes the make comparison link instead of the main page>

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