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Postings from December 2008
I'm still not convinced that I like this (new) section of the Makefile as-is yet: .PHONY: all translators utilities make_patchnum make_patchnum: sh $(shellflags) make_patchnum.sh .patchnum: make_patchnum perl$(OBJ_EXT): .patchnum because it seems to have the side effect that make always considers that .patchnum is out of date, so always regenerates it, so perl.o is always recompiled, so miniperl is always relinked, so lib/unicore/mktables is always re-run, and all the extensions Makefiles checked. Which is quite a bit of work each time. Is there a way in a makefile of saying "try this, but if it doesn't XYZ then consider the target up-to-date"? Nicholas ClarkThread Next