On 18 January 2007 09:35, sharan basappa wrote: > When a directory itself is given as a prerequisite, how does make intrepret > it ..
Same way as anything else: it checks the timestamp, and if it's newer than the target then the target needs rebuilding. > in the context of a recursive make, this is the example I see in a book .. > It is simple phony targets that are doing the trick or make has special > way to handle directories .. We had a thread about this just last week, and John Graham-Cumming posted a link to an article he wrote all about building directories in make... http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/6936/120/ Highly recommended reading! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
