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two ways of building a target, depending on different prerequisites


From: José Romildo Malaquias
Subject: two ways of building a target, depending on different prerequisites
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:59:48 -0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Hello.

How can I write a make rule to build a target that can be built in two
different ways, depending on which pre-requisite files are available?

For instance, suppose that the target file test.txt can be built in two
different ways, according to the following two rules:

test.txt: file1.txt
          command1 $< $@

test.txt: file2.txt
          command2 $< $@

If file1.txt exists (or can be built), then the first rule is
used. Otherwise the second rule is used.

Romildo



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