Re: how easily can i ignore dependencies?

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert P J Day <address@hidden> writes:

    Robert>   is there a convenient way to run make against a target
    Robert> and tell it to ignore its dependencies and just run its
    Robert> rules?

If your makefile looks like

        foo: bar
                rebuild

you can do `make foo -W bar'.
 
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