> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:10:53 +0100
> From: Edgar Fuß
>
> TRC> Traditionally make(1) doesn't handle dependencies on directories very
> TRC> well for various reasons
> The reasons being?
Sorry, I don't remember them all, other than the one you already
cited, that adding things to the director
> What is the scenario you're thinking of that causes gratuitous
> command execution later?
The directory existing and the stamp absent.
I.e. the directory created by someone else.
On 02/14, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> TRC> and the traditional approach is to use a dummy file in the directory:
> TRC>
> TRC> foo/.stamp:
> TRC> touch foo/.stamp
> Which a) creates a file you may have to ignore afterwards and b) updates the
> directory's time stamp causing gratuitous command execution l
DH> I don't remember anything that just checks 'existance'
DH> without checking the timestamp.
EF> Which, to epeat myself, would be extremely useful, especially for
EF> directories
EF> (because adding a file means updating the directories mtime, which ...).
EF> I always end up with something lik
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:58:18 +0100
> From: Edgar Fuß
>
> > I don't remember anything that just checks 'existance'
> > without checking the timestamp.
> Which, to epeat myself, would be extremely useful, especially for directories
> (because adding a file means updating the directories mtime
