Paul Smith, el 12 de agosto a las 13:54 me escribiste: > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:21 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > > I need to use .PHONY though, because the script should be executed always. > > If I don't, make call the ./gen_file just the first time, and then it > > never gets outdated in successive make calls. > > You can't use .PHONY or make will go into an infinite loop, because > every time it starts it will build the out of date file, then re-exec, > then build the out-of-date file again and re-exec, etc. etc.
Just for the sake of curiosity: I doesn't go into an infinite loop. I don't know exactly why, but it doesn't, and it doesn't emit an error or warning either. -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A heart that's full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won't heal. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
