Various changes getting ready for the release of 3.81.

- Updates to make.texi and make.1 and other documentation
- Some VMS patches
- Fix minor bugs reported on the mailing list and from Debian.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/remake.c b/remake.c
index 0795af3..3500535 100644
--- a/remake.c
+++ b/remake.c
@@ -530,7 +530,10 @@ update_file_1 (struct file *file, unsigned int depth)
 	break;
 
       if (!running)
-	d->changed = file_mtime (d->file) != mtime;
+        /* The prereq is considered changed if the timestamp has changed while
+           it was built, OR it doesn't exist.  */
+	d->changed = ((file_mtime (d->file) != mtime)
+                      || (mtime == NONEXISTENT_MTIME));
 
       lastd = d;
       d = d->next;