How make decides to build target

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Published on 2010-05-04T04:16:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 4:48 UTC
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One sign is that target does not exist, understand this.

Another is by comparing modification timestamp of target and prerequisites. How it works in more details? What is the logic of comparing target and prerequisite timestamps and how it works when there are multiple prerequisites?

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