Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 04:10:55PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> >   --- Makefile.in     2001/02/01 21:54:22     1.32
> >   +++ Makefile.in     2001/02/17 16:10:54     1.33
> >   @@ -55,3 +55,6 @@
> >
> >    exports.c: $(EXPORT_FILES)
> >       (cat $(EXPORT_FILES) | ../build/buildexports.sh ..) > $@
> >   +
> >   +# wtf does this have to be explicit????
> >   +exports.lo: exports.c
> 
> What OS and make are you using? Did you use the debug flags to 'make' to see
> wtf it was thinking?
> 
> I can't imagine it would need to be explicit. Too many other things would
> break. Possibly, it is related to the very dynamic nature of exports.c.
> Possibly, it grabbed all the timestamps at the start of the make, and didn't
> notice the updated timestamp after exports.c was rebuilt.

Oh, I should say that the problem was not that it didn't notice the
updated timestamp - the problem was that it didn't rebuild exports.c!

Cheers,

Ben.

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