%% Helmut Dipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: hd> -include aaa hd> sinclude bbb
hd> .DEFAULT: hd> @echo "target: $@" hd> #------------------------------------------ hd> and the results: hd> target: bbb hd> target: aaa hd> gmake: *** No targets. Stop. hd> How can it be avoided that the rule with the special target hd> .DEFAULT is applied when trying to remade not existent hd> include-files? You must declare a real rule for the makefiles; even a pattern rule will do it. hd> Must "empty rules" be specified for each include- file which may hd> exist or not? Yes, if you use .DEFAULT. .DEFAULT can make any file, so it will apply to _ANY_ file that make wants to build and which doesn't yet exist. This is a very powerful, and at the some time somewhat uncontrolled, capability. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
