On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 08:16:51PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 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.
It takes several _hours_ to do `make' a second time on my
machine with the latest glibc sources (and no files are recompiled a
second time). I think I'll remove `build' after changing one file if
I want to recompile it.
--
Juan Cespedes
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