From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: MAKE operation in old Windows98 environments.
Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:48:43 +0000
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Hello.

Andy Woodcock wrote:
> When running the MAKE on a very old Windows98 machine it insists on
> rebuilding every thing from scratch every time. On a project with eighty
> plus source files this can be quite tedious. I believe the problem has
> something to do with the build environment (NOTE I have no control over this
> and must use whatever I am given).
[snip]
> .PHONEY: clean
> clean:
[snip]

I don't know about the problem you describe, but .PHONEY should be .PHONY.
See:

    info make phony

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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