Hello Mr Smith,
-Original Message-
From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:psmith;gnu.org]
Sent: mercredi 13 novembre 2002 17:34
To: David Mentre
dmPrerequisite `x.h' is newer than target `x.c'. ok
No, not OK!
You don't want to specify that the .c file depends on the .h
Hello,
I don't know if it is a bug or a feature, but I observe a strange behavior
with a makefile of my own.
You'll find the Makefile as well as needed dummy file in the attachement.
For this project, if a make a 'make' on an empty directory, everything is
made correctly.
However, if I modify
I tried your environment on my Debian GNU/Linux box with GNU make 3.79.1
and it worked fine for me: when I ran make everything was rebuilt and
when I ran make x.o, x.o was rebuilt.
It didn't say they were up to date. There must be something else about
your environment that's causing this
Hello Mr Smith,
-Original Message-
From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:psmith;gnu.org]
Sent: mercredi 13 novembre 2002 16:17
I tried your environment on my Debian GNU/Linux box with GNU
make 3.79.1
and it worked fine for me: when I ran make everything was
rebuilt and
when I ran make
%% David Mentre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dmPrerequisite `x.h' is newer than target `x.c'. ok
No, not OK!
You don't want to specify that the .c file depends on the .h file. You
don't update the .c file when the .h file changes: you have no rule for
that.
It's the .o file that
