%% Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
rb> Unfortunately, solving the toy problem in this case doesn't help with
rb> the real one. It would have a rule someting like this:
rb> m.touch: m.web
rb> ftangle -F m.web
rb> touch m.touch
rb> The product of ftangle is a lot of .cc and .h files, but because of
rb> the -F option only some of them are updated. So in terms of the
rb> example, it's as if the m.touch rule might or might not touch x.cc
rb> My current solution is something like this
rb> $(SOURCES): m.web
rb> ftangle -F m.web
rb> but this ends up running ftangle many times, once for each of the
rb> $(SOURCES) that do not get updated.
You almost had it... you have to do something like this:
$(SOURCES): m.touch
m.touch: m.web
ftangle -F m.web
@touch $@
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