RE: archive members always out of date

[ATD Hill, Bruce]

Paul,
I'm at a loss to explain how, but the same exact tests I ran
last night with make 3.79.1 now work properly.  If you look
at the 2nd email I sent, it shows that I was indeed running
make 3.79.1, yet here's the output of the same test today.

1075:test/% rm foo.a
1076:test/% !make
make --debug=b "foo.a(j.o)"
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.7
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.

Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
 File `foo.a(j.o)' does not exist.
Must remake target `foo.a(j.o)'.
/users1/bhill/tmp/binutils-2.9.1/binutils/ar rv foo.a j.o
a - j.o
Successfully remade target file `foo.a(j.o)'.
1077:test/% !!
make --debug=b "foo.a(j.o)"
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.7
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.

Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
make: `foo.a(j.o)' is up to date.
1078:test/% !!
make --debug=b "foo.a(j.o)"
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for sparc-sun-solaris2.7
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to <address@hidden>.

Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
make: `foo.a(j.o)' is up to date.
1079:test/%

I apologize for the false alarm.  I wish I knew why it failed
last night, but I can no longer duplicate the bug.

Best regards,

Bruce Hill