Gary Benson writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > Use make. If any .db files are added or altered, the .db gets > > rebuilt. If they aren't, it isn't. The makefile contains the > > commands that do the right thing. > > > > make is designed to solve this kind of problem. > > Can you write a makefile to do this? I've never been able to figure > out how to do multiple directory stuff :-/ OK, I just checked with tromey, and we think we can write a makefile that allows you to install a stanadrd jpackage and then do a "make". For example, this rule does the building, where needed: %.so: %.jar gcj -o $@ blah blah $< %.db: %.so gcj-dbtool -o $@ db/$(basename $<).jar $< ... etc. Andrew.