On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 5:12 PM Michael Lehn <michael.l...@uni-ulm.de> wrote: > But not on the Linux boxes there make always rebuild everything. On all > machines I am using GNU Make. ... > Can anyone confirm that?
i can confirm that for me on linux the latest make from git as well as make-4.3 correctly detect that libfoo.a is up to date. What version of make do you use? > (or tell me what obvious stupid mistake I have done …?) you don't really need ranlib any longer. regards, Dmitry