GCC vs. `make' on Solaris

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 13, 2001, andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net (Andrew Pimlott) wrote:

> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 08:44:15PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> We want to avoid having to rebuild foo.o
>> if foo.c doesn't change, but we also want to avoid running `bar' again
>> every time.

> bar will be run again iff bar changes, in both your example and
> mine.

Nope.  In your example, foo.c will remain older than bar, so its
command will be invoked every time you `make'.

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