From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Prince Subject: Re: Not overwriting unchanged source code files when tangling Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:46:47 -0500 Message-ID: <874ny19y4o.fsf@hermes.hocat.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRRaf-00016z-Ns for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:47:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRRab-00050N-Li for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:47:01 -0500 Received: from socrates.hocat.ca ([76.10.188.53]:44793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RRRab-0004zw-7U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:46:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Brian Wightman , Holger Hoefling Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:23:18 -0600, Brian Wightman wrote: > Perhaps a way to deal with this would be to tangle to a different > directory, and then sync any changes into your compilation source > directory. If you would update the compilation directory only when > something differs from the tangle directory, then make could handle it > from that point on. The tangle mechanism could probably handle this autoatically. i.e. not saving a file if the contents are identical. Tom