>objects depend on it. On the second and succeeding objects it just says "Pruning file `foo.h'." Right, it your case indeed it says "pruning", but in my case, which is just multiple empty commands, make either complains (with :;) , or goes right to work (with ::;), which is neither of them I would want.
> stop using recursive make and switch to a single make process (but still multiple files of course) that does everything. No, I am not talking about recursive make here. I am talking about a situation, where there are lots of header and source files, which object files depend on , and I don't want make to look for ways to "make" those header and source files, I just want it to find them and bedone. >Hmm, can you point us at where the manual says that? I didn't see a statement like that in a quick scan, but I've been known to see right through entire paragraphs... Yes, in section 3.7 it says "If you know that one or more of your makefiles cannot be remade and you want to keep make from performing an implicit rule search on them, perhaps for efficiency reasons, you can use any normal method of preventing implicit rule lookup to do so. For example, you can write an explicit rule with the makefile as the target, and an empty command string (see Using Empty Commands)." So, "any normal method" ??? what is another method other than the one they are quoting? Mark _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
