From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: The miracle of MAKE Date: 15 Mar 1998 17:05:55 GMT Organization: Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden Lines: 12 Message-ID: <6eh1pj$4p0$1@antares.lu.erisoft.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: propus.lu.erisoft.se To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Manni Heumann (mheumann AT post DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de) wrote: : I know, I am courios, but: How the hell does make know when to rebuild a file : an when it is up to date? : It must have some kind of database somewhere and I really would like to know : where! Nope. Make uses the time stamps on the files. Right, MartinS