On Thu, 10 May 2001, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
> 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
OK thanks, that would be a third way around that problem. I note that
that is more likely to work with a GNU derived make utility since not all
vendor supplied make's recognize .PHONY. But it'll work on OS X at least.
Peter Prymmer
