From: Laurent Giroud <lgiroud AT eden-studios DOT fr>
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Subject: Problem with make 3.76
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:49:35 +0200
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hello,

   I have a "little" (which annoys me a lot however) problem
with make and I think I had already read about it somewhere but
can't find where...

   The problem simply resides in the fact that Make does not
recognize when a file date changed.

  I have a building chain of the form

final-file   <  intermediate file  <  source file

modifying the source file under Win95 and running Make causes
him to say everything is up to date.
deleting the final file and running Make causes the final file
 AND the intermediate file to be rebuilt.

  This is the fact that the intermediate file is being rebuilt too
that make me think that it is a problem not only with my
dependencies chain but also with Make recognizing dates.

  Is it possible that Make does not sometime read the wrong date
(ie the modified one, not the creation one) under win95 with
long file names ?

   If some of you need to have my dependency chain visualized, please
say so I'll post it as a reply.

  Thank you in advance if you have ideas about this.

Laurent

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Laurent Giroud
lgiroud AT eden-studios DOT fr