Awesome info Tim. I didn't know about the -d and -dd switches. Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ethan, > > The "make" command has a couple useful command-line switches to help > determine if something has changed somewhere in the chain of dependencies, > necessitating a re-link: > > - -d (provide explanation of the reasons for decisions made by "make") > - -dd (like the "-d" switch, but on steroids) > - -n (generate the commands to be executed by "make", but don't execute > them) > >