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From: F35KER%DHHDESY3.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kerst van Raden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: make(1) not so mad
Message-ID: <24121@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 15 Sep 89 21:58:52 GMT
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Hello World!
Some days ago I posted a cry for help with a strange behaving
make(1). First of all I'd like to thank all those who who tried to
help me locate the problem. Unfortunately no one came up with the
right idea: I had mistyped the date when I logged in the day before.
After several hours of looking through the code of make and filling
it with debug printfs I finally found make spotting a header file
with a modification time of september 1990. This caused make to
recompile all .c files in one directoy everytime I started it.
So this was really not makes fault. On the other hand I had expected
ls(1) to tell me the year of modification if it was not 1989. Instead
ls gave me the date and time, so I thought the year was '89. I did
not look into the code of ls (the ST 1.1 version) yet, but I suppose
ls prints the year of modification if it is older then the current
year instaed of printing it when it is not the current year.
Anyway I plan to install one of the ls's recently posted on the net.
I just wanted to warn you: mistyping the date and touching a file may
couse you a lot of grief. And ls may not tell you...
Wiser now
           Kerst van Raden