"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > %% 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 :-).
sorry for that. next time i will endeavor to descript the problem as clear as i can. > > > 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 ok, i got it. but ... is there a name for the technology? i want to do a info search for furthur study. thanks. _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
