Re: Implementing an Ada compiler and libraries.

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de> writes:
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> Stefan Bellon writes:

>> > But timestamps are considered as well. If you touch a file
>> > without modifying it otherwise, it triggers a recompilation.
>> 
>> Not in my experience.  Changing the timestamp causes a
>> recalculation of the checksum, that's all.  Even after adding
>> whitespace or pretty-printing the file, there is no recompilation.
>
> Hmmmm:
>
> bellonsn@cube$ gnatmake foo.adb
> gnatmake: "foo" up to date.
> bellonsn@cube$ touch foo.adb    
> bellonsn@cube$ gnatmake foo.adb
> gcc -c foo.adb
> gnatbind -x foo.ali
> gnatlink foo.ali

I suspect that the difference in your experience is that Ludovic keeps
the "-m" flag among his default flags for "gnatmake".

Try:

   gnatmake -m foo.adb
   touch       foo.adb
   gnatmake -m foo.adb

Greetings,

Jacob
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