Re: [Nmh-workers] patch: cygwin fixes for nmh-1.1RC2

[Jeremy Gebben]

On January 7, 2004 at 18:44, Earl Hood wrote:
> Note, this is a non-standard make feature.  However, it may
> be irrelevant to other platforms.
> 
> However, to make it standard, the common method of forcing a target
> to be built evertime is to do something like:
> 
> install: _FORCE
>       ... install commands here
> 
> _FORCE:
> 
> 
> I.e.  _FORCE is an empty target.  You add it to the dependency list
> of any target you always want built.

You're right. That is probably a better way to do it.

> Note, dtime.c and dtimep.c had duplicate code (not sure if that
> is still the case).  The timezone stuff could be made into
> a shared utility function.

As far as I can tell, this is no longer the case.

> 
> +1 for adding the patch.

Thanks!

Jeremy