Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 01:54:33AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote: > > Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Well. Make is just not made to support this. The usual solution for this > > problem is: > > > > world: ../hello > > echo "world!" > > > > ../hello: > > (cd .. && $(MAKE) hello) > > > > I haven't tested it, but it *should* work. > > Well, but it *works* if there is a file "hello" in the testing directory, so > this can't be the whole story. > > Note that the Makefiles that failed weren't mine. They do work for other > people, and sometimes they work for me, too. > > I really don't know what is wrong with the other Makefiles. > Well, of course it works, when the file is there. Make just compares the time stamps. If the file is there, it's fine, but if it's not, it doesn't have a rule to create the file and that's, what it tells you.
Do you use -j? If not, I can't think of a reason, why it sometimes works and sometimes not. Greets, Stephan -- In a thousand years, there will be no men and women, just wankers. And that's fine by me. * Trainspotting MFCH -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
