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Re: BUG in GNU Make 3.57

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From: Eliot &
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 20:59
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We have had a similar though slightly different problem. We have rules
something like this:

%.dvi: %.tex
    latex ....
%.ps: %.dvi
    dvips
%.print: %.ps
    printing program

The first make runs fine. then I update foo.tex and invoke make again. It
*does* run latex, but *not* dvips. This happens (apparently) because I am
running make with -n and it is not updating its internal concept of the time
on foo.dvi, so it thinks foo.dvi is up to date. (I use make to build a script
that I run separately because it asks interactive questions as it goes, etc.)
For my usage, this is losing behavior, and it *worked* in the past. the
current release we have installed is 3.57. I seem to recall some recent
messages about this point; is it being fixed? Thanks for any info you can
offer!								Eliot
--

		J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor
		Department of Computer and Information Science
		Lederle Graduate Research Center
		University of Massachusetts
		Amherst, MA  01003
		(413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu
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Subject: Re: BUG in GNU Make 3.57
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Date: 15 Dec 89 20:59:01 GMT
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