If you're interested in this area there's a Ruby project which does the correct thing here, which is to only recompile/run `make` when a file changes. The origi

If you're interested in this area there's a Ruby project which does the correct thing here, which is to only recompile/run `make` when a file changes. The original author has stopped maintaining the project. I've been working on a fork, called `observr`, and looking for contributors: https://github.com/kevinburke/observr https://github.com/kevinburke/observr