Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:15:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: James Owens <ad354 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
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Subject: Re: newbie question involving InfoZIP source and DJGPP
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On 5 Nov 2000, James Owens wrote:

> 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.

Make doesn't know that changing a Makefile requires recompiling the 
entire distribution, unless all .o files have the Makefile in the list of 
their prerequisites.