Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17740 (project make): Someone who sees this problem will need to either provide a reproducible test case, or a description clear enough to allow me to create one. Based on the information in this bug I tried this:
include foo.d foo.d: foo.x ; : cp $< $@ all: ; : all Then "touch foo.d"... but it didn't show the behavior you describe: $ touch foo.d $ make make: *** No rule to make target `foo.x', needed by `foo.d'. Stop. $ /opt/src/make/old/make-3.81/make --version GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ... _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17740> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make