gcc questions

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Nov 27 22:54:26 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 16:02 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:39:01PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > That looks like what I'm looking for. When I did make file (not
> > file.c) I was informed that the file is already up to date. I checked
> 
> This is the primary magic of make. If you already *have* file, and it's
> newer than all the source files (in this case, just file.c), it won't build
> it again. Edit file.c so it has a new date (or just do "touch file.c") and
> try again. Or, delete "file".
> 
or "make clean" followed by "make" if the makefile has that option.

> > man make and I didn't see any information on how to compile, although
> > it does say that it is dealing with C files. I tried googling for
> > info.make but I can't get my hands on it.
> 
> Try "pinfo make". 
> 
> You'll probably want more than the man page and info 
> 
> 
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> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
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