Re: implicit prerequisite bad assumptions

2000-06-13 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gm> Let me clarify this better - I'd like to have one generic Makefile gm> fo a huge source tree. I only want the work directory created in gm> directories where it makes sense. I want to keep that complexity gm> away from the developer - or

Re: implicit prerequisite bad assumptions

2000-06-12 Thread Gianni Mariani
Paul, Let me clarify this better - I'd like to have one generic Makefile fo a huge source tree. I only want the work directory created in directories where it makes sense. I want to keep that complexity away from the developer - or as much as possible away from developers. I'm attaching a fil

Re: implicit prerequisite bad assumptions

2000-06-12 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gm> It seems the attached Makefile will fail for a clean build. I gm> read through the docs and it seems that there is nothing that says gm> this should not work. The problem is a invalid assumption that if gm> a implicit prerequisite's dire

implicit prerequisite bad assumptions

2000-06-10 Thread Gianni Mariani
It seems the attached Makefile will fail for a clean build. I read through the docs and it seems that there is nothing that says this should not work. The problem is a invalid assumption that if a implicit prerequisite's directory does not exist at the beginning then it must not be a candidate.