On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM, David Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
But if there are no files in the directory, I still want some_command to run. How to do it? _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
