Ken, Paul,
       thanks for the help!. This is actually a bit more flexible that what
I wanted to do so I think that the feature I had in mind won't be necessary.



On Jan 16, 2008 4:07 PM, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:02 -0200, Rafael Garabato wrote:
> > However, if I execute "make all", wouldn't this execute the always
> > rule twice. Once for dep1 and once for dep2?
>
> However, note that Ken's idea won't work so well.
>
> By creating "always" as a prerequisite, and making it .PHONY, it means
> that "always" is always out of date.
>
> That means that everything that depends on "always" is also always out
> of date.
>
> Which means make will rebuild these things every single time.
>
> You could try using order-only prerequisites, instead of simple
> prerequisites.  See the GNU make manual.
>
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>  Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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