From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strange behavior of GNU-make (WinNT 4.0)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:03:56 +0000
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Anton Helm wrote:
> 
> Hmmm. As I stated before it acts like there would be a file named 'all'
> which is up to date. Meanwhile I have also detected some strange behavior
> of gunzip (tells me that the output file already exists...) which gave me a
> hint where to search for a bug, and....... BINGO !

As a workaround to this problem, you could try declaring 'all' as phony
by using the .PHONY pseudotarget in you makefile:

.PHONY : all

This causes make to treat the indicated target as if there were no file
present, even if there is.

I'm going to let wiser folks work on the problem itself.  ;)

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