REDO-ALWAYS(1)

NAME
redo-always - mark the current target as always needing to be rebuilt

SYNOPSIS
redo-always

DESCRIPTION
Normally redo-always is run from a .do file that has been executed by redo(1). See redo(1) for more details.

redo-always takes no parameters. It simply adds an ensures that the target will always be rebuilt if anyone runs redo-ifchange targetname.

Because of the way redo works, redo-ifchange targetname will only rebuild targetname once per session. So if multiple targets depend on targetname and targetname has called redo-always, only the first target will cause it to be rebuilt. If the build cycle completes and a new one begins, it will be rebuilt exactly one more time.

Normally, any target that depends (directly or indirectly) on a sub-target that has called redo-always will also always need to rebuild, since one of its dependencies will always be out of date. To avoid this problem, redo-always is usually used along with redo-stamp(1).

REDO
Part of the redo(1) suite.

CREDITS
The original concept for redo was created by D. J. Bernstein and documented on his web site (http://cr.yp.to/redo.html). This independent implementation was created by Avery Pennarun and you can find its source code at http://github.com/apenwarr/redo.

SEE ALSO
redo(1), redo-ifcreate(1), redo-ifchange(1), redo-stamp(1)

AUTHOR
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>