On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > By convention, but not requirement, the first target in the makefile is > often called "all". Make will try to build "all" and in order to build > "all" it first needs to try to build all the prerequisites of "all", > etc. etc. >
Not to argue with Paul, who is of course Always Right in All Things Regarding Make (and i say that with no sarcasm whatsoever), but i would argue that the most common Makefile prefix looks like: #!/usr/bin/make default: all In any case, though, the intention is the same: explicitly name the starting rule, in the same way that the first rule in most parser-generator grammars is the first/head rule. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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