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From: jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Re: Problems with Clam
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Date: 11 Apr 89 23:45:47 GMT
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From article <12855@louie.udel.EDU>, by jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241):
> 3.  And last -- not a bug, but "why does it work this way!!!" -- the make
>     program under Minix (and probably Unix in general) is not smart enough
>     to realize that if the makefile itself has been modified, it should
>     recompile even though .c and .s files have not changed!!
> 
> John Nall

	Compiling Gnu-Emacs 18.53 on Suns is a major pain because our
Unix make command DOES recompile the program when the Makefile changed.   I
know, I know, this is a feature and required, but it was still a pain in
this case.

--
Jason Coughlin
( jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu , jk0@clutx.BITNET , or whatever works! )