Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / July 2004

This is a follow up to something I posted on the c.s.m.p.cw a while
back. I've got more information now.  (I originally posted this last
week on Metrowerks web forum but did not got any reply after five
days.)

I have a CW project that builds a Mach-O app. It has four targets
(linking against BSD or MSL, Debug or Release). I'm only building the
first target (BSD/Debug). I build the target, and of course, hitting
Build immediately again, does nothing. If I close the project and
immediately reopen it when I build the same target it relinks.

Looking at the project's Data directory (in the terminal with ls -lR)
I noticed that when I close the project these files were touched:
CWSettingsMacOS.stg
in the target's sub-folder:
TargetDataMacOS.tdt

When I reopen the project this file gets touched:
in the target's sub-folder:
TargetDataMacOS.tdt

At this point if I hit the "check file dates" button nothing in the
target gets checked, i.e. none of the source files or libraries got
changed.

Then when I hit Build and the project relinks these files are touched:
CWSettingsMacOS.stg
and in all target's folders:
TargetDataMacOS.tdt

Hitting Build again (which does nothing in the IDE) touches no files.

Is this right? Would these files being touched account for what I am
seeing? Should I post this as a bug?

Robert