From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl Newsgroups: net.bugs Title: Re: make dependency rules inadequate - (nf) Article-I.D.: ima.180 Posted: Thu Jul 22 10:43:25 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 00:03:40 1982 References: uiucdcs.256 The problem stated is just wrong rules, not a make bug. You said: all: a.o ... a.c: a.h But a.c doesn't depend on a.h. It's a.o that needs to be remade, not a.c, so the right rules are: all: a.o ... a.o: a.c a.h Unfortunately, make then has trouble figuring out how to remake a.o since the default rule has been overridden, so you probably have to tell it. Oh well. John Levine, decvax!cca!ima!johnl, harpo!esquire!ima!johnl