On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 21:05 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > $ rm -f mbrtoc32.o > $ make --trace mbrtoc32.o
If you remove the target then it should only say that it was rebuilt because the target doesn't exist, regardless of how many other prerequisite are out of date, because you can't even compute the out of dateness usefully if there's no target to compare with: $ cat Makefile all: foo.x bar.x ; @echo hi; touch $@ %.x: ; touch $@ $ make touch foo.x touch bar.x hi $ make make: 'all' is up to date. $ rm all $ make --trace Makefile:1: update target 'all' due to: target does not exist echo hi; touch all hi > I'm using GNU make 4.3. Maybe a version difference. I'm using 4.4.
