On: What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD

[hhmc]

How to modern build systems check for file updates?

[Nzen → hhmc]

I can't speak for other build systems, but tup [0] provides the option to listen for filechanges via the fuse library.

[0] http://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html <edit substitutes the make comparison link instead of the main page>