Cristian Zoicas wrote: > If you do this way (I've tried) then the $(shell) statement is executed > two times because of the regeneration of the file "generated.mak" even > if the statement is found in the file "Makefile".
Good point. But I'd think that since print_start_message doesn't exist on the second pass, that the action would still be gone through twice. Also, I forgot to mention that you probably want: .PHONY: print_start_message just in case somehow the file print_start_message does get created. > I asked some weeks on this mailing list ago why the $(shell) statement is > executed two times and I found that this behavior is by design. Yeah, it'd be a good feature to be able to write conditional makefiles based on the re-exec count. Noel -- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
