On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: > I have just realised that after I have touched the files they > show as being updated if I view the files with Windows Explorer. > It is ls -alc and make that do not see the files as updated. > > Best regards, > Chris
The following is from "ls --help": -c with -lt: sort by, and show, ctime (time of last modification of file status information) with -l: show ctime and sort by name otherwise: sort by ctime In other words, you're essentially asking it to print the file creation time. "touch" doesn't change that. Try "ls -alu" or even "ls -al" -- you should get different times there. I don't know if this explains your make problems. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/