Will~ Doesn't make have something called "PHONY" to handle that exact case?
Matt On 7/27/05, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is because there's a directory called "tcl". Since the directly > already exists, there'd be nothing to make. > > Picking a dummy target like this is a way to force the target to > always be built, regardless. > > On Jul 27, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Jerry Gay via RT wrote: > > > leo's fix (r8695) works just fine on windows :) > > > > but what is all this .dummy business? > > > > tcl: tcl.dummy > > tcl.dummy: > > - $(MAKE_C) tcl > > tcl.test: > > - $(MAKE_C) tcl test > > tcl.clean: > > - $(MAKE_C) tcl clean > > > > > > can't that just be > > tcl: > > - $(MAKE_C) tcl > > etc. > > > > ~jerry > > > > > > -- "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory." -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary
