Re: 'How makefiles are remade'

[Paul D. Smith]

I think Jim's example could be _MUCH_ clearer (what's with all that
TICKS and patsubst, etc.?  That hardly seems necessary to show the
issue).

But, if I understand correctly, what Jim wants is for make to re-invoke
itself after each makefile that it rebuilds, so that subsequent rebuilds
can take advantage of the contents created in previous ones.


If you want make to continue to re-exec itself you have to fake it out
by somehow convincing it that the file is out of date.  If you provide a
simple example, just using touch etc. so it's obvious what's going on,
I'll see if I can think of a way to do it.


Alternatively you could move away from include and just start using
eval... then you don't have to worry about re-exec at all.

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