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What alternatives to the make command are able to detect file changes on other criteria than timestamp?

What alternatives to the make command are able to detect file changes on other criteria than timestamp?

So far I have only found Rant ( http://rant.rubyforge.org/ ) which is able to detect file changes based on MD5 checksums instead of file modification times.

Are there others?

Ideally I would be able to specify an external command that is used to detect file changes (in that case I would be able to compare local file checksums to checksums of remote files on S3 for example).

Solution

  • I suppose you are looking something like makepp signature methods. Options for makepp are:

    exact_match
target_newer
md5
c_compilation_md5
shared_object
xml
default (= target_newer)

    They are all described here