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Re: Hard to understand make -B on man page
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carl hansen |
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Re: Hard to understand make -B on man page |
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Sat, 3 Apr 2021 15:47:54 -0700 |
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 11:52 PM 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
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> On the make man page,
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> -B, --always-make
> Unconditionally make all targets.
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> seems to mean for Makefile
> a:; echo $@
> b:; echo $@
> c:; echo $@
> $ make -B
> should make all three.
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> Therefore the wording should be more like the INFO page.
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> GNU Make 4.3
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The meaning could be better expressed.
"Unconditionally make all targets."
really means
'Make targets even if they are already made.'