[nylug-talk] ext3 and noatime

[Sunny Dubey]

On Monday 04 February 2008 10:26:13 am Chris Knadle wrote:
>    I think I realize what the 'make' problem is probably about -- it's not
> the original 'make' that is of issue, but rather the problem of modifying
> one of the sources and then expecting 'make' to rebuild just the parts that
> have their corresponding sources modified since the last build.  So it will
> probably be necessary to 'make clean' and remake the full source again. [I
> have not tested this theory.]

make uses file system time stamps and not atime.  Which makes sense being that 
make only cares for the last time a file was modified and not simply 
accessed.

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Sunny Dubey

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