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From: "Martin Keates" <martin@jabadaw.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: GCC (sorry)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:22:33 -0000
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> When make runs, it checks "all", which is dependent on
> "banjo" which is dependent on "banjo.o" and "pad.o"

just to be clear "banjo" is a filename here (the final executable).

make looks at the time stamps of the different files when
rulenames and dependencies are filenames and does the
rule if any of the dependency files are more recent than the rule file.

erm. yeah. that's what it does.

Martin.