Re: manual section 4.7 says something strange

2017-01-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 09:51 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote: > This may be at least mostly  true for the particular case of the clean > target, which is generally invoked explicitly.  However, its not true > for the common case of an object file that one wants to always > rebuild. I'm not sure anyone w

manual section 4.7 says something strange

2017-01-02 Thread Britton Kerin
It says this: An example will illustrate this: clean: FORCE rm $(objects) FORCE: Here the target ‘FORCE’ satisfies the special conditions, so the target clean that depends on it is forced to run its recipe. There is nothing special about the name ‘FORCE’, bu