waf does not rebuild modified files.

[dulimarta]

Typing waf html does not automatically rebuild modified files.

Steps to reproduce this bug:

• Run waf ohtml to build generate and browse the HTML documents
• Add a line of text into manual/shells.rst
• Run waf html to rebuild the documents
• Refresh the browser (the changes made in shells.rst do not appear)

[seanfisk]

This is a pretty common workflow, so I'd think we would have noticed it pretty soon after it cropped up. Anyway, I wasn't able to reproduce the bug from some presumptive tests.

Could you try running this for me?

bash -c './waf distclean configure -d ohtml && cp build/manual/html/shells.html{,.old} && echo -e "\nshould be in diff" >> manual/shells.rst && ./waf html && diff -u build/manual/html/shells.html{.old,}'

The output of the diff command (at the end) should be:

--- build/manual/html/shells.html.old   2015-01-03 23:21:41.000000000 -0500
+++ build/manual/html/shells.html   2015-01-03 23:21:43.000000000 -0500
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
 <div class="section" id="kornshell">
 <h2>Kornshell<a class="headerlink" href="#kornshell" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
 <p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.kornshell.org">Kornshell</a> is a shell developed at AT&amp;T Bell Laboratories. It has features of both the Bash and Korn shells, as well as additional features.</p>
+<p>should be in diff</p>
 </div>
 </div>

@@ -246,7 +247,7 @@
       &copy; Copyright 2015 Sean Fisk and Ira Woodring<br />
       <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/80x15.png" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;All text licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License</a>.<br />
       <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"><img src="_static/apache-feather.png" height="15"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;All code licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache 2.0 License</a> unless otherwise stated.<br />
-      Revision <a href="https://github.com/seanfisk/mastering-eos/commit/2960335">2960335</a> built 2015-01-03 23:21:35 EST.<br />
+      Revision <a href="https://github.com/seanfisk/mastering-eos/commit/2960335">2960335</a> built 2015-01-03 23:21:43 EST.<br />
     </p>
   </div>

Obviously the build date is going to differ, but we are also looking for the should be in diff part. Let me know what the result is.

[seanfisk]

@dulimarta I haven't heard back on this. Are you still having this problem, or can I close this issue?