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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: make removed my source file
Message-ID: <12179@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Feb 90 16:21:42 GMT
References: <1025@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1025@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.UUCP (David J. Camp) writes:
>Here is what it did when I typed 'make':
>rm -f xxencode.c
>lex  -t xxencode.l > xxencode.c
>I do not understand why these commands were executed instead
>of the ones I specified in my Makefile.

"make" contains a built-in list of default rules (just which rules
varies from one implementation to another).  It appears in your case
that these was a built-in rule for making a .c from a .l.  You must
have had an xxencode.l file with a more recent mod time that xxencode.c.