I think console routines fetches the time that the compile happened, so rebuilding it forces it to include the time of the compile regardless of whether anything else has changed in that routine.

Touch should just change the date on the file so make will always compile it.

73,

Burns Fisher, WB1FJ *AMSAT(R) Engineering -- Flight Software*

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:38 PM Bob Stricklin via pacsat-dev < pacsat-dev@amsat.org> wrote:

Here is the location of the “touch” issue?

What is this for?

Why does it break things if you remove it?

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