Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/02/15/15:05:22
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From: | pnl AT lara DOT eng DOT sun DOT com (Paul Loewenstein)
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Ghostscript 2.6.1 and make
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Date: | 15 Feb 1996 17:18:26 GMT
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Organization: | Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On 13 Feb 1996, I wrote:
> The biggest struggle was getting the makefile to work. I never got
> the make from the v2.0 distribution to work. I eventually used a
I had a revelation this morning and fixed the problem!
For some reason (I doubt I shall never understand why) all the
Ghostscript distribution files got timestamped well into the next
millennium. This explains the wildly different behaviors of the
various make programs I tried; presumably no one has precisely
specified how make should function when run at a time inconsistent
with the file timestamps.
The files were extracted using djtarx, but rerunning this produced
perfectly consistent file timestamps. I unfortunately ran
touch *.* on the inconsistent directory, so further detective work
is difficult. However this fixed the make problem.
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Paul Loewenstein Sun Microsystems Computer Co., Mailstop UMPK12-302
Staff Engineer 2550 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043-1100, USA
Tel: 415-786-6015 FAX: 415-568-9603
paul DOT loewenstein AT eng DOT sun DOT com
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