Well, the target does have a prerequisite. I want the Makefile to check for the existence of the prerequisite and output a message if it's not there. It's just that this prerequisite is always newer than its targets.
I've read the Gnu Make documentation on order-only prerequisites, but there wasn't enough there for me to understand how they work. Also, the fact that they aren't supported on older versions probably rules out that as a solution for me. _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
