%% "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  ms> I've been messing with the -d (debug) flag for gmake to try to
  ms> speed things up a bit and I see that for every included file and
  ms> the Makefile itself, gmake goes through it's entire rule tree.

  ms> I'm wondering if there is a convienient way to have it think that
  ms> there are no prereqs for a short list of specifially named
  ms> included files (including the Makefile itself).

The way to have make not search for an implicit rule for a target is to
define an explicit rule for that target.

  Makefile:;

There's some info on this in the GNU make manual sections on implicit
rules.

HTH.

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