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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@IOCANE.com.au>
  To  : Mark Phillips <mark@austrics.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:52:45 +0930

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

Mark Phillips wrote:

> I thought that since "ls" gives the date of the symlink rather
> that of what it points to, that make would obtain the same date.

ls uses lstat() on symbolic links.

> I'll test it out anyway.

That's all I did, using Python's os.stat() and a bona-fide makefile,
to make sure my aging memory isn't slipping.  Would've posted the
Python results, had my laptop been able to tunnel out of this place.

Regards,
  Daryl Tester

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