>Your question is not very clear (to me).
I just want a way to correctly write a rule for a make target, that is a soft
symlink. It seems to me there is currently no way to do that. If I (as I
should) depend on the Makefile, then the target will always rebuild, which is
not correct.
>Obviously you can "touch" the target file ("from")
Of course not I can't :) A file such as "from" is typically a
version-controlled file, which is read-only, unless I need to change something,
which I clearly don't, then I can check it out and edit it. Cannot just go
around the filesystem and touch source files because I want to.
What I do want, is for make to create me a symlink, and I want to do it
"correctly" by make standards, that means, rebuild the symlink only when
necessary - when the name of the target changes (change to Makefile), or when
the symlink does not exist.
It seems to me this is a natural thing to do, and it seems to me there is no
way to do it?
Mark
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