On 11 January 2012 14:49, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm not sure why "@true" is needed, as I think GNU make allows simply >> ";" for an empty recipe, maybe Ian can explain that part. > > The rules I described work for all versions of make. It's quite
Thanks, I wondered if that was the reason. > possible that with GNU make the "@true" is unnecessary. Yep: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Empty-Recipes