On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:53:01PM -0700, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote:
> Hey, do you suppose we could build a mechanism into the build procedure
> where if you replace something on which other programs depend, it could
> stuff a _REBUILD_ME file into the source directory of the dependents?
> 
> I could do it, but it'd probably be an egregious hack.

Not that there's anything wrong with that ;-)

But why doesn't the touching of the rebuilt dependancy suffice? What does
a _REBUILD_ME solve that date deps don't?

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