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Re: why does make install depend upon all?


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: why does make install depend upon all?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:31:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

but that doesn't make much sense.

still no:  there are people who really do _not_ want "make install"
to create new files (because that's the way they want to do installs).
When they see it doing that, it's a bug.

You're welcome to produce code the way you want it of course,
but don't assume it's acceptable to other people.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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