On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:46:09PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > The way to do it is nominate one of UNIDATAFILES (ideally the last one > written) as _the_ dependancy. (I don't see a definition of UNIDATAFILES > in your patch)
While this would work, I'm not keen on this because 1: It would force the name of the file to be hard coded in a second place in the makefile 2: There's no guarantee that the order of writing won't change. > Or invent a pseudo target thus: > > $(UNIDATAFILES) : unidataready > # Nothing here - the nothing happens 7 times ... > > unidataready : $(MINIPERL) $(CONFIGPM) ..\lib\unicore\mktables > cd ..\lib\unicore && ..\$(MINIPERL) -I.. mktables I like this better. The list of files were in a patch I applied direct to the repository, that I didn't quite get right because it broke the windows build. Nicholas Clark
