From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7 Title: make -n vs make Article-I.D.: utzoo.2482 Posted: Mon Sep 20 19:36:23 1982 Received: Mon Sep 20 19:36:23 1982 In a standard V7, if one makes awk, changes run.c, and then goes to rebuild awk, a curious thing happens. "make -n" predicts that the whole thing will be redone from scratch. "make" alone, though, does the superficially-correct thing, recompiling run.c and reloading awk. Does anybody know why? I lack the time to investigate.