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Re: Makefile change to restart bootstraps
On Nov 13, 2000, Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be simpler if the 'stage_a' or whatever target depended
> on all the C source files. This would automatically restart the
> bootstrap if any of the sources changed.
I thought about that, but I rejected it because there may be times
when you don't want to restart the bootstrap, but proceed from the
stage in which you are. But that may work, indeed.
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