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Re: Reorganize contrib/egcs_update
On Jul 13, 1999, Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> wrote:
> This is sure complicated; I don't understand why we need to use touch at
> all
Because it sometimes happens that a dependency file changes but the
generated file doesn't. In this case, it will not be updated, and, if
you don't touch it, the Makefile will try to rebuild it, and you'll
get clashes between objc-parse and C parse, for example.
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