On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Kaz Kylheku (gmake) wrote: > On 2019-10-15 08:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm not sure what to make of this since there is only one Makefile > > in play in this directory, and the docker container has its > > working directory set to this directory, and all of the targets > > being invoked are defined in the same Makefile. > > It allows the containing file to re-invoke itself regardless of its > name. Even if it is the only makefile in the directory, this would > be required if its name isn't "dir.mk"...
i understood all of that except for the above ... what is magic about the makefile name "dir.mk"? what is magic about that name such that it would be used unless overridden? rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
