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Subject: Re: Problem with Make and volume labels
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> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:17:13 +0200
> From: Andrea Mazzoleni <amadvance AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
> 
> For example:
> 
> C:\> label dos
> C:\> cd tmp
> 
> makefile:
> ----------------------------
> dos:
> 	echo Alive
> ----------------------------
> 
> C:\TMP\> make
> make: `dos' is up to date.

This is due to a strange misfeature in the findfirst function: the
call

     findfirst("c:/tmp/dos", &ff_blk, FA_LABEL);

always succeeds (returns zero) if the drive C:'s label is "dos".

A solution is to work around this problem inside `stat'.  A temporary
work-around is not to use Make targets whose names are identical to
the volume labels.

Thanks for reporting this subtle bug.