Re: DOCS: include a sample "Makefile"?

[Matthias Neeracher]

On May 14, 2009, at 18:00
 Jonathan Kulp <address@hidden> wrote:
> BTW I now have working makefiles for a lilypond-book (LaTeX type)  
> project and for a symphony I've engraved with targets of "score,"  
> "parts," "midi," and "all."  The parts are unsuitable for actual use  
> but they're sufficient to test the makefile and the build process.
>
> The symphony's makefile works perfectly on Linux but not on Mac at  
> the moment.

Mac OS uses GNU make; doesn't Linux do so, too?

>  On Mac, the "make score" command works, but "make parts" keeps  
> coming back with a "make: `parts' is up-to-date" instead of actually  
> running the files.  I found the "--always-make" command-line option,  
> which forces it to build the parts, but it would be nice not to have  
> to specify that option.  On my Linux machine the default behavior is  
> to recompile the files.

Adding a line

.PHONY: parts

before your actual parts rule should do the trick.

Matthias