* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:48:12PM CET: > On Saturday 29 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > (automake will not produce a rule for some target if you put a > > rule for that target in the Makefile.am, even if your rule does > > not contain commands; > > > JFTR: I never liked this behaviour, which IMHO greatly reduce the > transparency of automake. But that's for another thread anyway > (and another day, probably).
Like it or not, it is very hard to change. Lots of code has come to depend on the current semantics; and there are the parsing issues for GNU make-specific code. Plus, the behavior can be very useful at times. Cheers, Ralf
