README.dircmp

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dircmp is a simple utility written in C to compare file timestamps
between two directories.  It was written specifically to determine
which .java sourcefiles need to be recompiled by checking if the .java
file is newer than the corresponding .class classfile.

For example:

#
# Directory structure of your project
#
myproject............Base project directory
myproject/src........Base sourcefile directory
myproject/classes....Base classfile directory

#
# Packages in your project
#
com.myorg.mypackage
com.myorg.mypackage.util

#
# This command will look in the src and classes trees to check what
# .java files either have no corresponding classfile OR have a newer
# timestamp than the classfile.  Files that need to be recompiled will
# be output to STDOUT as a space-delimited list which can be passed to
# a javac command.
#
$ dircmp \
 -s myproject/src \
 -d myproject/classes \
 -p .java \
 -q .class \
 com/myorg/mypackage \
 com/myorg/mypackage/util

INSTALLATION
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The Makefile is not fancy.  You may have to edit it for your setup.
It will try to compile dircmp.c with gcc and install it into /usr/bin.

$ make
$ make test
$ make install