%% Steven Woody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sw> "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> %% Steven Woody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sw> in gnu make, can i specify a dependency rule which conducts the
sw> rebuilding of all .o files as long as a common .h file change?
sw> thanks.
>> foo.o bar.o baz.o boz.o biz.o : common.h
sw> i think this is not so ideal. actually, i've already defined
sw> PROGRAM = foo bar baz boz biz
sw> somewhere, so i thing only suffixing an .o to all above programs
sw> is not worthy of such re-typing. some kind of reusing of
sw> $(PROGRAM) is desirable.
Well, if you want an answer to a specific question you have to ask THAT
question, not some other question... we're l33t, but we ain't psychic :-).
If you have a variable PROGRAM containing the names of things without
the .o and you want to avoid retyping, you can do this:
$(PROGRAM:%=%.o): common.h
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