I’m trying to use the ExternalData module. So far it works very well; with a declaration of ExternalData_LINK_CONTENT
the data marked with DATA{...}
in the CMakeLists.txt files gets staged for uploading by moving it to .ExternalData_%(algo)_%(hash)
file. Perfect, just as advertised.
Now I’m exploring what happens when data gets updated in-place. So I have an “old” datafile.bin.sha512
file whose content is available from the data store, and put a new version of datafile.bin
next to it.
I was expecting that this new file would be detected when I issue make
, and converted to linked content automatically, but I need to run make rebuild_cache
for that to happen. Is there any way to make the build system pick up on the new content without having to run make rebuild_cache
?