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This has been reported by a debian user. I am not sure if
this is a defect in make, but I can't find a rationale for the
difference in behaviour. If this is not a bug, a clarification about
what is happening would be appreciated.
manoj
When I create a Makefile with pattern rules for compiling to a directory
different from where the source lies, together with rules for creating
these directories, I get very strange results:
### Example Makefile
all: obj/.stamp obj/test
obj/test: obj/test.o
obj/.stamp:
mkdir -p obj
touch obj/.stamp
obj/%: obj/%.o
$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^
obj/%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $^
### End of Example
Now, when the "obj" directory already exists, everything runs fine.
If it doesn't exist, it gets created and the program also compiled
correctly, but obj/test.o is deleted afterwards, because make considers
it an intermediate file. It seems that the cause is the "obj/test: obj/test.o"
rule being ignored if "obj" itself doesn't exist.
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... r-q1
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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