Re: archive members always out of date

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "ATD Hill, Bruce" <address@hidden> writes:

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  ahb> When I try to use the archive member syntax gnu make always
  ahb> decides the prerequisite object is newer than the archive member
  ahb> and re-archives it.

  ahb> I would expect make to determine that the archived object is
  ahb> uptodate and not rearchive it.

  ahb>     GNU make v3.7.9

I expect you mean 3.79; there is no 3.7.9.

Please try the latest version (currently 3.79.1); I believe this problem
is fixed there.

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