> I've investigated a little and suspect that the rebuild happens > in tests/wc because the time stamp on tests/wc/Makefile.am > is exactly the same as the one on its dependent, tests/Makefile.am.in. > GNU make doesn't rebuild in that case, but HPUX's make does, hence > the failure you noticed.
Aha, that explains why the rule triggered in the first place. I had a similar problem with the cvs version of gdb. Files checked in with the same 'cvs commit' end up with the same time stamp. I fixed it in gdb simply by touching some of the generated files and committing them. Michael C _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
