"Andy Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that with a clean build tree, there are no *.o files > down in languages/imcc/ at the point when that target is reached. > Hence make doesn't have anything to expand *.o as, and quite reasonably > complains. If, however, there is even a single .o file in that > directory, then the wildcard is expanded as you'd expect and the make > proceeds.
If you want a version of make where non-extisting files will still match the wildcards (because the wildard engine looks at Make's DAG), you might want to look at makepp (http://makepp.sourceforge.net). Its written in Perl, so should be portable to everywhere parrot needs to build. Its blurb makes it look pretty good, though I've not yet used it in a real project. Dave.
