Re: Minor bug in Makefile

Jason Rennie <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:14:39 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] said:
> Spot it?  Neither did I, at first.
> In the 1.1.3 release, it so happens that the file dates (at least on
> my system)  for ifile.h and Version differ slightly; Version is newer,
> triggering this rule.  Now, as I am running in subdirectory "iris4d",
> there is no "include/ifile.h" to  write to, so the rule fails.  If
> re-run, make will actually remove the backup of  ifile.h as well,
> permanently destroying it. 

Thanks for catching this.  So, I'll add -f to the mv and make the cat/sed/
sed/sed/sed target $(srcdir)/include/ifile.h instead of $@.  Does this 
make sense?

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
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