make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc

[Chris Rees]

On 28 January 2010 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered
> to ask why.
>
> Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf
> files. Imagine I then update freebsd.mc. When I run make
> nothing happens. What I think should happen is that
> local .mc should be updated and then .cf generated.
>
> Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete
> local .mc files and all .cf files before running make.
>
> Any comments?
>
> many thanks
> anton
>

Because your carefully crafted local .mc files shouldn't be clobbered
whenever freebsd.mc is updated?

Chris