On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 16:56 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:13:44AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 14:00 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > >
> > > but I don't want to have to have an explicit rule for every directory;
> >
> > Why don't you just use "mkdir -p"?
> >
> > default: a/b/c/
> >
> > a/b/c/ : ; mkdir -p $@
>
> Actually, I can't get this to work either:
>
> # ----------------
> q : foo/bar/
> echo bye
>
> %/ :
> echo hi
> # ----------------
>
> $ make
> make: *** No rule to make target `foo/bar', needed by `q'. Stop.
Make strips trailing slashes, to canonicalize names. Use something like
this instead:
default: a/b/c/.; echo bye
%/. : ; echo hi
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