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From: dbk@mimsy.UUCP (Dan Kozak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bugs in the AT&T Toolchest program 'nmake'
Summary: an idea about date stamps and state files
Keywords: make, nmake, state files
Message-ID: <17678@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 18:27:55 GMT
References: <1640@internal.Apple.COM> <6561@ardent.UUCP> <11562@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <MCGRATH.89May19190412@paris.Berkeley.EDU> <11564@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1981@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: dbk@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (Dan Kozak)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1981@yunexus.UUCP> davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
>  --dave (dates are part of an open system, and are "Gnu"ish,
>	  states are formally more complete, and are "lab"ish.
>	  anybody got a **good* solution?) c-b

This may only show my naivete, but has anyone implemented a make that
uses the actual contents (i.e. a CRC or other checkvalue) to compute
whether something should be re-made?  In fact, you could first send
the file thru one of the many "de-commenting" programs that were
floating around comp.lang.c a few months ago, if you didn't want a
file recompiled when you just changed the comments. (and some people
thought those programs were useless :-)

#dan

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