Re: Problems with build target
On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 01:05:14PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Martin> Aha, I didn't know that .PHONY does. If that's the case maybe
> Martin> every rules file that has a build target and uses the file
> Martin> build as stamp file needs to have such a .PHONY entry. At
> Martin> least it sounds ok.
>
> I think I disagree. Think about large packages, or packages
> that do complex things (mailagent, Perl, latex2html) each run time
> consuming tests, or create documentation from scratch, etc. I guess
I thing you're missing the capability of Makefiles.
New documentation will only be created if source changes. Make only
has to compare either timestamps.
> we should either use pattern runes or separate targets, but I prefer
> the upstream makefiles, which, often, do not have this granularity.
Ok, but this is a different story. If I get such Makefiles I'm trying
to optimize them where I can and submit it to the author. I think this
is appropriate.
Regards,
Joey
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