How about this as a replacement? I notice that after a successful build all the test-*.o files are removed by make, and somehow make seems to believe it is Ok not to recreate them. --- Makefile | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 4eb4637..51af531 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -969,6 +969,8 @@ test-date$X: date.o ctype.o test-delta$X: diff-delta.o patch-delta.o +.PRECIOUS: $(patsubst test-%$X,test-%.o,$(TEST_PROGRAMS)) + test-%$X: test-%.o $(GITLIBS) $(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(filter %.o,$^) $(LIBS) Warning: 1 path touched but unmodified. Consider running git-status. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html