--- In blassic@yahoogroups.com, "ewhite88" <ewhite20@l...> wrote:

> the rest of your message has me confused. i can't touch the .o files
> as they do not exist. i had given up on this; i'll have to go try it
> again.

touch create the files if they do not exist. The trick is to create the files,
so
that make does not try to build them.

gencharset creates charset.cpp form the data contained in charset.def, but
charset.cpp is already included with the sources, so you don't need to
recreate it unless you modify charset.def, but the build process is not smart
enough and tries to do all the process anyway.