CHEATMAKE(1)

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💅 CHEATMAKE(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the cheatmake manual page — yes, that's the name, we're just vibing in section 1 of the manual, no big deal 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

cheatmake — fool make into not rebuilding certain files 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cheatmake [hidechangefile] [show] [whyfile]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so cheatmake is literally your recompile-era bestie when you're trying to save time ⏰✨ It can fool make into skipping files that haven't changed in a meaningful way. Like imagine you changed a comment in a file but none of the actual code — yeah, cheatmake is like "girl, we don't need to rebuild all that" 💅

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. iconic. periodt.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • hidechange file — hides the fact that file was changed by setting the timestamp into the past. Use with care! 😭 (fr fr, be careful with this one)
  • show — lists what files make currently needs to rebuild 🔍 so you can see the to-do list before you commit to anything
  • why file — explains why make must rebuild file 🕵️‍♀️ it's giving detective energy

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

One of the following variables (but not both!!) should be set if the source directory is different from the build directory. If the build directory is simply a subdirectory of the source directory, the simpler variable OBJ_SUBDIR should be used. 💖

  • OBJ_SUBJDIR — indicates that the build directory is in the given subdirectory of the source directory. For instance, if the source directory is kdesdk and the build directory is kdesdk/obj-i386-linux, then OBJ_SUBDIR should be set to obj-i386-linux 🍓
  • OBJ_REPLACEMENT — a sed expression that is used to transform the source directory into the build directory. For instance, if the source directory is kdesdk/obj-i386-linux, then OBJ_REPLACEMENT should be set to s#kdesdk#kdesdk-obj# ✨

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

make(1) — the OG 👑

💜 AUTHORS 💜

cheatmake was written by David Faure <faure@kde.org> 💖 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux® system (but may be used by others). slay.

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨

and a lil sign-off for the record: this one came from [FIXME: source] and it's dated 2003-03-08 — yeah, it's an elder but it still serves 🫶💖 no cap.

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