%% Lutz Vieweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lv> My problem is that I always used dependencies like this:
lv> foo.cxx: foo.h sub/bar.h
lv> .SECONDARY: foo.cxx
lv> to tell make that something that depends on foo.cxx needs to be
lv> remade whenever foo.h or sub/bar.h changes.
lv> Of course, foo.cxx should never be changed by any command make
lv> invokes.
Hmm.
I don't believe that was ever an intended side-effect of the .SECONDARY
behavior.
lv> isn't there any way to tell make "foo.cxx depends on foo.h, but
lv> foo.cxx won't change because of it, only other files that depend
lv> on foo.cxx need to be remade"?
No; this is sometimes called "transitive dependencies", and some build
tools have them, but make doesn't support them.
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