On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 04:39:54PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote: > > The reason is that inside of debian/rules a stamp-file is used > > to indicate that the build process was successful. Unfortunately > > this stamp-file is called 'build' - similar to the target I have > > to use > > That's what the .PHONY: target is for: [..] > It makes make ignore files of the same name as a .PHONY: dependent.
Aha, I didn't know that .PHONY does. If that's the case maybe every rules file that has a build target and uses the file build as stamp file needs to have such a .PHONY entry. At least it sounds ok. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]