Confusion around empty recipe

2024-06-01 Thread Jeenu Viswambharan
Hi, This is about a question I posted on Stack Overflow some time ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76954446/typescript-workflow-using-gnu-make. The suggested solution works, but I've some follow-up questions, so I'm trying here instead. There's little point in my repeating the question he

Re: Confusion around empty recipe

2024-06-02 Thread Jeenu Viswambharan
On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 4:26 PM Mike Haboustak wrote: > The high-level summary is that Make does not update the mtime for > no-recipe targets after rebuilding them. Adding the empty recipe > ensures a new mtime is recorded after the target is rebuilt, even > though no additional work is performed.