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From: pnl AT lara DOT eng DOT sun DOT com (Paul Loewenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Ghostscript 2.6.1 and make
Date: 15 Feb 1996 17:18:26 GMT
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On 13 Feb 1996, I wrote:

> The biggest struggle was getting the makefile to work.  I never got
> the make from the v2.0 distribution to work.  I eventually used a


I had a revelation this morning and fixed the problem!

For some reason (I doubt I shall never understand why) all the
Ghostscript distribution files got timestamped well into the next
millennium.  This explains the wildly different behaviors of the
various make programs I tried; presumably no one has precisely
specified how make should function when run at a time inconsistent
with the file timestamps.

The files were extracted using djtarx, but rerunning this produced
perfectly consistent file timestamps.  I unfortunately ran
touch *.* on the inconsistent directory, so further detective work
is difficult.  However this fixed the make problem.
-- 
Paul Loewenstein          Sun Microsystems Computer Co., Mailstop UMPK12-302
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