Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Build System links/ recommendations

[Andrew Suffield]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:41:45PM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> Ok. This seems to work:
> 
> @foo : | @bar
>       touch @foo
> 
> @foo : @bar
> 
> @bar :
>       test -f @bar || touch @bar
> 
> But well, now do you really consider this obvious? It takes a hell lot
> of reading the manual or asking stupid questions to make this work. And
> it should be quite common thing to do with recursive makefiles...

Nobody ever said make was obvious. It's powerful but difficult to use
effectively. That's why you see so many people doing nutty things with
it.

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