THIS is the lightest way to have continuous make, without wasting cycles and hammering the file system. inotifywait is a pretty standard tool that does exactly

THIS is the lightest way to have continuous make, without wasting cycles and hammering the file system. inotifywait is a pretty standard tool that does exactly what's needed. watch : while true; do \ clear; $(MAKE) -j all tests; \ inotifywait -qre close_write src tests; \ done