Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!wjh+ From: wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: warning: Makefiles don't check destination Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 90 19:33:37 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 In building a peice of ATK today, I wanted to force a reinstall, so I deleted a file ($ANDREWDIR/doc/atk/ness/nessfunc.doc) which had been installed by a previous make. Rerunning the `make Install` did not replace the deleted file. The dependencies in the ATK directories check to make sure that the object files are up-to-date with respect to the sources, but do not check that the destination directories are up-to-date with respect to the objects. Fred Hansen