Re: help about GNU `m4'

[PENG Bo]

Hi,
  I did the 'touch doc/m4.info'. Now it works.

  Thank you so much.

Pengbo, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
To: "PENG Bo" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: help about GNU `m4'


> PENG Bo <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > making all in doc
> > No suffix list.
> >         cd . && makeinfo m4.texinfo
> > sh: makeinfo:  not found.
> 
> It appears that your "make" program is busted: it assumes that
> one must rebuild a file if it has the exact same time stamp as
> a file that it depends on.  POSIX says that "make" must assume
> that a file is up to date unless it is older than a dependency.
> 
> To work around the problem, run the command "touch doc/m4.info":
> this will modify the timestamp on the file doc/m4.info so that
> your "make" knows that it is up to date.