Re: How to refer to the first target?

[Peng Yu]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Allan Odgaard
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2009, at 22:29, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>>> [...]
>>
>> This solution seems awkward to me. There maybe not be a good pattern that
>> catch both a and b. Should gnu make have a more natural solution to this
>> problem?
>
> I had the problem with ANTLR which is a parser-generator and generates
> multiple files.
>
> I ended up with a solution a la:
>
>    grammar.cpp: grammar.g
>        antlr …
>    lexer.cpp: grammar.cpp
>        touch $@
>
> Here antlr generates both grammar.cpp + lexer.cpp, but as far as make knows,
> lexer.cpp is generated from grammar.cpp which is what depends on grammar.g.

Although this works for a program that generated only a small number
of file, it is still cumbersome for a program that generated thousands
of files, right?

Suppose 'program.exe' generate output1, output2,...,output100000,

The rules will look like.

output1: program.exe
   ./program.exe

output2: output1
   touch $@

...

output100000: output1
   touch $@



Also, when I delete file 'b' but not file 'a' after I run make once,
the target 'b' will not be updated correctly.

.PHONY: all

all: a b

a: command.sh
        ./command.sh

b: a
        touch $@