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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@IOCANE.com.au>
  To  : Mark Phillips <mark@austrics.com.au>
        linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:09:28 +0930

RE: "make" with soft link dependencies - how?

Mark Phillips wrote:

> But if the dependencies refer to
> symbolic links to the earlier stuff instead, changes
> will not affect the date stamp of the links, and hence
> the latest stuff will not be recompiled as it should.

The stat() call picks the attributes off of the file pointed
to by the symbolic link, not the symbolic link itself, so it
won't be a problem.  Have you actually tried it to see what the
case is?


Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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