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From: | "Luke Bishop" <lbishop AT calvin DOT stemnet DOT nf DOT ca> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: The miracle of MAKE |
Date: | 14 Mar 1998 01:26:09 GMT |
Organization: | The Zone |
Lines: | 13 |
Message-ID: | <01bd4e2f$38494fc0$3648a5c6@technoid> |
References: | <EprLsF DOT DyI AT hermes DOT hrz DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de> |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
> I know, I am courios, but: How the hell does make know when to rebuild a file > an when it is up to date? > It must have some kind of database somewhere and I really would like to know > where! > > Does anybody know? Sure, no big mystery, it just checks the file-stamps on the files. When you specify a rule, it checks if the target is older than the dependancies, and if so rebuilds the target.
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