David Byron wrote:
What I'm having trouble with is getting the builddate.c recipe to happen
at the right time.
Could you make it depend on *.o except for builddate.o? If any of those
change, rebuild builddate.c, which will cause builddate.o to be rebuilt.
This feels like a faq, but I couldn't find anything related so here
goes.
I'd like to compile in the build time into my application. I have a
recipe like this:
BUILDTIME = $(shell TZ=UTC date --utc)
builddate.c:
echo "#include " >$@
echo >>$@
echo "const char *BuildDate