From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: newbie question involving InfoZIP source and DJGPP Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <8u49sg$dbj$1 AT freenet9 DOT carleton DOT ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 X-Trace: /ba9QdufL1n9TmAenrfaF1ts2rAZztt2buN67FhK/eQfZYuQ7KskPxge5tnR81vuxzMc40JBhANl!snvTgLUviocf0HCtzXHBkrC4KhpF2ua1HUli7L2J2SrY93KeFwxJVhhjfcW/5GfUbK2t7wMX1rfY!p4ZGpA== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 21:36:52 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 21:36:52 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On 5 Nov 2000 18:45:36 GMT, ad354 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (James Owens) wrote: >[I'm trying to reconfigure a project by using environment >variables and then rebuild the project.] > >This worked -- but only if I started with a completely fresh unzip of the >INFOZIP downloadable, made these changes immediately, and then ran MAKE. >If I ran MAKE with the unaltered source first, then my changes to the >files made no difference to subsequent compiles. (I noticed that running >MAKE on a fresh unzip produced many more messages -- often DFUNZIP >messages -- than subsequent compiles). > >Obviously I was doing something wrong. How would one normally get a >slight change like this to compile? make clean The `make' utility looks only at the modification dates of various files to see if the project needs rebuilding. To force a rebuild, you need to delete the object files; many makefiles have a phony target `clean' to delete all the object files. --