On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there way to specify a dependence on a directory?
>
> directory: somefile
>  some_command
>
> If any file in 'directory' is older than 'somefile', then I want to
> run 'some_command'. I'm wondering how to do this.

Then you don't want a dependence on a directory. You want to depend on
the full set of files _within_ the directory, a very different thing.
I suspect $(wildcard $(dir)/*) is what you want.

David Boyce


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