Re: Long builds and dependency checking

[Jens Schweikhardt]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:12:50PM +0000, Bhatt, Milan C wrote:
# Hello,
#  
# One problem I've run into using gmake is that if it takes a long time to
# build a target file and the prerequisites change in between the build time,
# gmake will not recreate the target because it is more recent than its
# prerequisites.  Has anyone found a solution for this problem?

Repeat "gmake whatever" until it says "`whatever' is up to date."?
You can capture gmake's output and grep for the magic string.
Left as an exercise for the reader :-)

Regards,

        Jens
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