Hi,
Perhaps due to my long and annoying description, one has difficulty in
understanding what the problem I encountered was. Here I would
provide a much shorter description.
GNU Automake generates dependency tree like this in Makefile.in:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/k$ cat Makefile
a: b
> This example is certainly simple, thanks.
>
> The Makefile isn't telling make that the rule for making c from d will
> also update b. Make caches modification times and doesn't know to
> invalidate its cache of b's time.
Thank you for the information. So I think it is Makefile.in from GNU
Au
> (I know from experience that you have to tell make about when you update
> targets that make knows about but I can't quote from the manual to
> support that de jure. (And I believe that the only way you can safely
> update multiple targets from a single rule is if it's a Pattern Rule but
> not
