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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW Make file weirdness
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.172201.17768@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 90 17:22:01 GMT
References: <11406@goofy.Apple.COM>
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <11406@goofy.Apple.COM> mdtaylor@Apple.COM (Mark Taylor) writes:

>But then it occurs to me that, say, file2.h itself #includes a basic header
>file, called, say, basic.h.  I would like my makefile to reflect this
>dependency.  So I create one dependency rule in my makefile that says, simply:

>file2.h <option-f> basic.h

>This doesn't work as I expect.

Try the following:

	file2.h <option-f> basic.h
		setfile -m file2.h

This will change the modification date of file2.h (like the UN*X 'touch'
command), so that it is newer than basic.h and will cause the desired
compiles.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)