Re: generated Makefile wants to run missing after configure (broken --disable-dependency-tracking?)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-08-27 11:16:54 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I think the best and easiest workaround is to set all of the file
> times to the same time.  Then make will consider them up to date.
> 
>   $ cd PROJECTDIR && find . -type f -exec touch -r . {} +
> 
> But if you can't set the time on files then that won't work.

That's precisely the problem: "touch" does not work, except for setting
mtime to the *current* time. I now remember a discussion saying that
"touch" wasn't always implemented, and the default behavior (set to the
current time) was obtained by opening the file and closing it.

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