On Thursday, May 10, 2001, at 12:45 PM, Peter Prymmer wrote:

> I think that the problem is case insensitivity.  You have an 'INSTALL'
> file in the perl tar ball but when you ask make to update the 'install'
> "file" it determines that the 'INSTALL' file is "already up to date".
> Development versions of perl have differently named targets like
> install-all to combat this problem on OS X.

   I usually fix that by marking install as a phony target, which tells 
make not to check for a file with that name:

.PHONY: install

        -Fred

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