[tlug] Make question?

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

G'day all,

I have a little task which I feel I should be able to 
implement using `make', but I can't work out how to do it.

I have a file, which I'll refer to as the "manifest" file.
That file contains information about a set of other files:
"foo", "bah", "bletch", etc. etc.

What I want to do is check automatically if any of "foo", "bah",
etc. have been touched more recently than "manifest". I could put 
this test in a script run by cron to warn me that "manifest" needs
attention.

I know I could pipe "ls -alt" into a program that checked, but I feel
there should be a way of doing it with make.

Any suggestions?

Jim

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