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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:10:24 -0400
To: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: How to create Makefiles ????
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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>When checking that (target) is up to date, the (command)s are run iff at
>least one (dependency) has a more recent timestamp than (target). For C
>programs, you want this to be the case whenever a #included header file or
>the C source file for a particular module has modified since that module
>was last rebuilt.

Thanx for pointing this out. I forgot to put in the .c files there!

>Note also that Make only tries to make the first target in the file (`all'
>in your case). In doing so, it would try to check that runme.exe is up to
>date; runme.exe may not exist, in which case Make assumes that it needs
>rebuilding, but you haven't told it how (there's no rule with the target
>`runme.exe').

Yup, you're right again, and I was wrong. I'm terribly sorry if this lead
to any inconvenience for someone!

-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --

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