Looking backwards, this rule from your toplevel makefile: > $(INF_DIST_SVCS_OBJS): $(DIRS)
seems bogus, given that $(INF_DIST_SVCS_OBJS) is a list of objects in directories _below_ the list of directories in $(DIRS). The toplevel make may recurse, then on popping back out see that the *SOURCE DIRECTORY* didn't change, and thereby decide that the object must not have changed. It looks me like your makefile is misleading make. Can you give examples of the output of make when this stuff *isn't* working? Preferable minimal, of course, where only a single source file was changed/recompiled, showing how make failed to rebuild everything that it you wish it would, and then the output of the second make invocation that builds the missing piece?ou I don't trust dependencies on directories; you have a dependency on a directory WHOSE CONTENTS AREN'T BEING CHANGED. That raises florescent red flags to me. Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
