Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Mohan Krishnan
ery large list and fails. so even if I have xargs in there, the $? is still gonna expand and cause make or sh to crash. is there a specific way that i can use a combination of $? and xargs ? Thanks, Mohan - Original Message - From: "John Alvord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Mohan Krishnan
es timestamps but doesn't like long command lines. Its true that the message was thrown by the shell but its the same shell I used for all the tries. maybe i'll try splitting the command line Thanks and rgds, Mohan - Original Message - From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-17 Thread Mohan Krishnan
ure for this? Really appreciate your time, rgds mohan - Original Message - From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mohan Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 6:59 AM Subject: Re: Timestamp is not

Re: Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-16 Thread Mohan Krishnan
rking with the .PHONY rule. Thanks. Rgds, Mohan - Original Message - From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mohan Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 6:59 AM Subject: Re: Timestamp is not being c

Timestamp is not being checked on NT + other

2000-03-15 Thread Mohan Krishnan
I hv make version 3.78.1 on NT. I found two problems. The attached files are just for the first problem   1) make reports "nothing to make" even though the target has changed. Same test works fine on Solaris. I am attaching a small test Makefile with some test files. First time through make