Package: make Version: 3.81-5 Severity: normal
I believe that when a new soft link is made to an old file, make is checking the age of the resolved path (i.e. the old file), not the age of the link (which is new, and may have changed). The result is that when the dependency is expressed through a soft link then the target may not be updated when it should be. Problem seen when running make in /etc/mail/ for sendmail, when the sendmail.mc file is a softlink to one of two models. The link is changed when the laptop's configuration is changed. But make was not updating the sendmail.cf target. Reason appeared to be that the link target was older than sendmail.cf. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers hardy-updates APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages make depends on: ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries make recommends no packages. Versions of packages make suggests: pn make-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
