On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:
If 'make install' does not depend on all, then it may misbehave since
necessary dependencies may not be built. Regardless of unexpected
side-effects (to the user), it is the technically correct thing to do.
you're confusing expected (conventional) behavior with accuracy.
If "make all" does all of the dependencies, and a subsequent
"make install" uses those, a different convention of
make all
make install
would also produce the desired result.
But this approach places the burden of correctness on the user. To
extrapolate along the same lines, you could also expect the user to do
make target1
make target2
make target3
make install
but that doesn't make much sense.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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