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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:35:26 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make problem...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006232032400.7361-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006231049440.16297-100000@sund6.sasi.com>

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote:

> make utility is behaving strangely on my FreeBSD 3.3 machine. Whenever I
> change some file and do make, it is compiling every file rather than
> compiling only the changed file. On a different machine of same release,
> make is working properly.

I've seen this happen when the date/time is wrong... make sure the files
have sane timestamps... 'touch *' may help...

> 
> I guess that there might be some option to make to disable this behaviour.
> Could some one help me to know why make is behaving like this and how do I
> avoid it? Especially it is very annoying when compiling kernel, as it
> takes lot of time to compile for even a single file changes.
> 
> thanks
> --gb
> 

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
  




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