Jeff Trawick <Jeffrey.Trawick at Sun.COM> writes: > GNU make builds a target when it does not exist or when it is older > than a prerequisite. That's different than what you're suggesting -- > that make rebuilds the target if it is not newer than the > prerequisite.
Hmm, you are so right, and so does most/all other make implementations (being a geek I just verified this on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX.....). Hmm... wonder why I have seen those "sleep" then in other code, maybe they like me did not want to spend time finding out what is "right" and added them thinking "better safe than sorry" ;) So as far as I understand, the "sleep" commands can be removed, kent Running a snippet on a mix of build hosts, they all said "Nothing to do for bar" or "bar is up to date" % do-on-all --cat "cd /tmp; perl -e 'print \"bar: foo\n\techo REBUILD\n\" > Makefile'; touch foo bar; make bar" -- Kent Boortz, Senior Production Engineer Sun Microsystems Inc., the MySQL team Office: +46 863 11 363 Mobile: +46 70 279 11 71
