On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 09:16 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> But what happened afterwards, after all the prerequisites were
> recursively treated, then make started checking all the timestamps. 
> After finding one that was newer, it nevertheless continued checking
> all the other ones.  

Well, one reason that jumps immediately to mind is that make needs to
populate the automatic variable "$?" (see the manual).




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