%% "Lindner, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lm> I'd like some way of avoiding the rebuliding of dependencies for
lm> targets (liek clean) that don't need them. I thought of testing
lm> the target and making the include conditional, but there doesn't
lm> seem to be a way to access the target variable before the include
lm> happens.
You can test whether you're cleaning or not in a conditional by
examining the $(MAKECMDGOALS) builtin variable, which see. I think the
manual contains this exact example.
lm> I found no solution in the online documentation. Is there a way to
lm> do this, or is there a better way to write the makefile to avoid
lm> the problem?
There is this, too; a much better way of handling dependencies that
avoids this and other problems. See my web site below.
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