Re: A possible bug (or a feature) : dependencies shown in dry-run but not rebuilt

[Paul D. Smith]

I tried your environment on my Debian GNU/Linux box with GNU make 3.79.1
and it worked fine for me: when I ran "make" everything was rebuilt and
when I ran "make x.o", x.o was rebuilt.

It didn't say they were up to date.  There must be something else about
your environment that's causing this problem.

You might also try the newest version, GNU make 3.80, to see if that
helps.

You should use "make -d" to find out why make considers them up to date,
then if you don't understand it post _selected_ sections of the output
(it's too long to post all of it, just pick the relevant lines) and
we'll take a look.

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