[comp.soft-sys.andrew] warning: Makefiles don't check destination

wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen) (12/18/90)

In building a peice of ATK today, I wanted to force a reinstall, so I
deleted a file ($ANDREWDIR/doc/atk/ness/nessfunc.doc) which had been
installed by a previous make.  

Rerunning the `make Install` did not replace the deleted file.  The
dependencies in the ATK directories check to make sure that the object
files are up-to-date with respect to the sources, but do not check that
the destination directories are up-to-date with respect to the objects.

Fred Hansen