On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 3:29 PM Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
>
> Tony Wrote:
>
> > I'm attaching a proposed patch. I wrote the recipe as "@test -e ./$@
> > || ln -sv ../$@" rather than just the ln command to make 100% sure it
> > doesn't try to recreate an existing link. AFAICT it works for me. I
> > don't know why it rebuilds auto/pathdef.c, objects/pathdef.o and
> > objects/version.o even though they aren't supposed to have changed.
>
> As I mentioned before: wildcards in the target won't work with all make
> programs. And also they usually only expand to existing files, not
> missing files. BSD make mentions this explicitly:
>
> Targets and sources may contain the shell wildcard values `?', `*', `[]',
> and `{}'. The values `?', `*', and `[]' may only be used as part of the
> final component of the target or source, and must be used to describe ex-
> isting files.
>
Ah, I didn't notice that.
Best regards,
Tony.
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