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Re: Cygwin make target is never determined up to date
Just to make sure we are on the same page.. Whenever the timestamps are
equal, it doesn't consider target as out of date, hence nothing happens.
Dave Korn-6 wrote:
>
> On 06/05/2010 01:16, MichaelKim wrote:
>
>> The timestamps are equal most of the time, just sometimes it may happen
>> be
>> different.
>
> Well, from "make"'s point of view, it has to take the safe assumption
> that
> if timestamps are equal, the file /could/ be out of date, so I think that
> explains the behaviour? Maybe take a look at the documentation for
> `.LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME' in the make info page, it discusses related issues.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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