Hi all :)) Don't know if this is a bug, but anyway this doesn't work and it should (IMHO). The problem is the function $(wildcard) not working properly when the argument is a generated file. Let me explain it with an example, better. We have this tiny Makefile:
all: @touch testfile install: all @echo $(wildcard testfile) clean: @rm testfile If we do 'make install', 'testfile' is created when the 'all' target is run but $(wildcard) doesn't notice, so nothing is printed. But if we do 'make all ; make install', the file is created and, since $(wildcard) gets run in the second make, it noticed the newly created file. Is this a bug or a feature? Will this undesired behaviour (undesired by me, at least) be solved if I replace $(wildcard pattern) with $(shell echo pattern)? This problem shows, AFAIK, with 3.79.1 and 3.80 versions of GNU make. I've tested both, with the original Makefile and with the tiny version I show above (the smallest Makefile that I can create that shows the problem). I've attached that same Makefile. As always, thanks a lot for GNU make, a great job ;))) Raśl
all: @touch testfile install: all @echo $(wildcard testfile) clean: @rm testfile
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