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

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