Don't. Mosttimes the compiler check is sane. Simply make a script to quickly touch the entire directory for when you are in doubt.

Hi,

When I cross compile the win32 intf, I get very often a strange message

[...]
PPU Check file
/home/mattias/pascal/wichtig/lazarus/lcl/units/interfacebase.ow time 2003/08/17 10:33:00
PPU Check file
/home/mattias/pascal/wichtig/lazarus/lcl/units/interfacebase.sw time Not Found
Recompiling unit, obj and asm are older than ppufile [...]

This happens when I add an -d option or I add/remove a {$DEFINE bla} somewhere in the LCL code. The position of the {$DEFINE} (interface or implementation) is not important.

Two questions:
What is an .sw file?
Has anybody seen this bug?

Mattias

Yes, I also had this sometimes when copying source repositories. I then do a global touch :_)

The .sw is probably the result of a -a run or a leftover from when a compiler died. Simply delete it

There is no .sw file to delete.
After a "touch", the compiler does not check for the .sw file and continues. Strange.

Mattias

Mosttimes? It compiles only in 1 of 5 cases. With "touch" it compiles always.
Under linux it works quite nice since two years. I almost forgot these bugs.

Simply make a script to quickly touch the entire directory for when you are in doubt.

Mattias

Hi
sw is the windows assembler file.
I think I had the same problem with linux. Problerly in version 1.0.10 the compiler compares the time of the unit file with the object file. I don't know why but, somtimes the .ow file has an earlier time stamp than the .ppu file. This has maby somtimes to do with the order in wich the file is produced or when the unit file is closed (after the assembler is run).
I dont know....

Saluti,

Jer

Thanks. That was(is) the problem.
A simple "touch" fixed the problem. How can add this to the Makefile?

Mattias