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Zargon wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:01:23 GMT, neil AT robots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (Neil Townsend)
> ate too many hallucinogenic mushrooms and wrote:
Yep, I agree your whacked!

> Are you sure of the version you used? I have basically mathematically
> proved that old files can't possibly be influencing the compile, since
> old source files will be either not referenced any more or
> overwritten, and old .o files will be overwritten by make because of
> the very fact that they are old. (There shouldn't be a .o file in
> there with a modification time more recent than a couple of months
> ago, whereas the source files ought to have created/modified times
> sometime late last night.)
I have seen M$ sindows do strange things to file dates & times.
 
This is my output for make:
g:/prog$make --version
GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i386-pc-msdosdjgpp
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <bug-make AT gnu DOT org>.

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