Andrew Pimlott writes: > This isn't accurate. bar1.h is out of date, but if its rule doesn't > change its timestamp, so that bar1.h is still older than foo.o, > foo.o will not be rebuilt. IOW, make doesn't equate "running its > rule" with "updating it".
I checked and you are right and I am wrong. Ouch. This means that the "touch" rule is needed for correctness, not just for optimization. I think GNU Make used to behave the way I described but it certainly does not now. So it looks like my skanky workarounds won't work and the fix is to roll forward to a version of 2.4.NN that Keith Owens has a patch available for. Michael C _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
