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Steve Hay wrote (in part): sh> However, this solution still has a problem: when running "dmake test" sh> (after a successful "dmake"), the mktables program now gets run again! sh> Why is that? I've attached a patch so you can see what I've done. As sh> I see it, test depends on test-prep, which depends on all, which sh> depends on $(UNIDATAFILES), but that is up-to-date so why is it sh> getting made again? All the files listed in $(UNIDATAFILES) have been sh> created and have the correct mtime. But 'unidatafiles', the intermediate target, does not exist. It is therefore always out of date. An added 'touch $@' (or some such equivalent, this not being run on a Unix system) should clear that up. Unless, of course, dmake has .PHONY support, which would be even better -- I'm just not expecting that it does. --s.Thread Previous | Thread Next