dub / libs / rebuild not triggered

[Seb]

On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 17:01:46 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
> Hi, I have the following line in my dub.json file:
>
> "libs-windows-x86_64": ["user32", "kernel32", "gdi32", 
> "b2d_playground"]
>
> b2d_playground is a C based .lib file. If this lib is updated 
> and I run: dub build --arch=x86_64 nothing happens. The EXE is 
> not rebuild, taking into accoun the updated lib file. IMO dub 
> should re-link the EXE.
>
> Is this by design or a bug?

Bug. Imho dub should compare the timestamp of its dependencies 
and see whether they are newer than the target like e.g. Make.

https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/new