Re: program target missing $(EXEEXT)

[Robert Collins]

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From: "Akim Demaille" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: program target missing $(EXEEXT)


> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Tom> I think the program rules somehow touched both PROG and PROG.exe.
>
> Sorry, I'm lost :(  What do you mean?
>
> I'm risking an answer which might be completely irrelevant: we now
> always use $(EXEEX), hence we don't to address both PROG and PROG.exe:
> just PROG$(EXEEXT).
>

Uhmm, actually it would be good to have a dummy PROG that just depends
on PROG$(EXEEXT)

Why?


Cygwin again :]

make prog will build the target prog, not prog.exe, and will build that
via implicit rules.

This is a nice-to-have BTW.

Rob