On 2005-09-19 19:00, Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused. > > I believe that: > > a: b > > means that 'a' depends on 'b', and if 'b' has a later timestamp than 'a' > then the rule will be invoked to produce a new 'a' from whatever is > done with 'b'. > > In this case, 'a' is ntpd-opts.c, and 'b' is ntpd-opts.def. > > As can be seen on your system and mine: > > > It seems that ntpd-opts.c has a timestamp 1 minute after ntpd-opts.def, > > which means it is up-to-date with respect to its dependencies.
True. I was confused when I posted my previous reply. With the tarball you posted, I can run make(1) with -ddm and see what you mean: 1 % flame:/home/keramida/ws/ntp/obj/ntpq$ make -ddm 2 % Caching ....done 3 % Caching /usr/share/mk...done 4 % expanding "sys.mk".../usr/share/mk/sys.mk 5 % Searching for /etc/make.conf...Looking for "/etc/make.conf"...Caching 18:38:48 Sep 12, 2005 for /etc/make.conf 6 % Searching for /etc/make.conf...Looking for "/etc/make.conf"...got it (in mtime cache) 7 % Searching for bsd.compat.mk...failed. 8 % Searching for bsd.compat.mk...failed. 9 % Searching for bsd.compat.mk.../usr/share/mk...here...returning /usr/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk 10 % Searching for bsd.cpu.mk...failed. 11 % Searching for bsd.cpu.mk...failed. 12 % Searching for bsd.cpu.mk.../usr/share/mk...here...returning /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk 13 % Searching for BSDmakefile...failed. 14 % Searching for BSDmakefile.../usr/share/mk...failed. 15 % Searching for makefile...failed. 16 % Searching for makefile.../usr/share/mk...failed. 17 % Searching for ./.deps/ntpq.Po...failed. Trying subdirectories...failed. Looking for "./.deps/ntpq.Po"...Caching 01:09:41 Sep 20, 2005 for ./.deps/ntpq.Po 18 % Searching for ./.deps/ntpq-opts.Po...failed. Trying subdirectories...failed. Looking for "./.deps/ntpq-opts.Po"...Caching 01:09:42 Sep 20, 2005 for ./.deps/ntpq-opts.Po 19 % Searching for ./.deps/ntpq-subs.Po...failed. Trying subdirectories...failed. Looking for "./.deps/ntpq-subs.Po"...Caching 01:09:41 Sep 20, 2005 for ./.deps/ntpq-subs.Po 20 % Searching for .depend...failed. 21 % Searching for .depend.../usr/share/mk...failed. 22 % Caching ../../ntp-4.2.0b/ntpq...done 23 % Searching for ntpq-opts.def.c...../../ntp-4.2.0b/ntpq...failed. 24 % Searching for ntpq-opts.def...failed. 25 % Examining ntpq-opts.def...Searching for ntpq-opts.def...../../ntp-4.2.0b/ntpq...here...returning ../../ntp-4.2.0b/ntpq/ntpq-opts.def 26 % modified 11:02:16 Aug 30, 2005...up-to-date. 27 % Examining ntpq-opts.c...non-existent...modified before source...out-of-date. 28 % cd ../../ntp-4.2.0b/ntpq && autogen ntpq-opts.def 29 % autogen: not found 30 % *** Error code 127 31 % 32 % Stop in /home/keramida/ws/ntp/obj/ntpq. 33 % flame:/home/keramida/ws/ntp/obj/ntpq$ At line 27 I see that ntpq-opts.c isn't looked up in VPATH. This may be a make(1) bug, sorry for the initial confusion. I've Cc'ed Harti who's been working on make(1) lately. - Giorgos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"