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

[Jan Hudec]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 19:46:41 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 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.

Except I said it works prematurely. It does not.

And also to mention is, that autoconf can't do any such trick (nor can
it do reasonable monolithic makefile (it ended up generating explicit
rule for each source when I tried)).

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