gcc questions

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Nov 28 00:10:10 UTC 2005


On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 04:54:26PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > 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.

Yeah, but in the context of using the default rules without even creating a
makefile, not likely to work. :)

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