On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Edward Welbourne <e...@chaos.org.uk> wrote: > a.gz b.gz .PHONY: zippem > zippem: > touch a > gzip a > touch b > gzip b
Yes, this is approximately my solution. I don't use a PHONY target though, I "touch zippem" at the end so it won't re-build zippem every time I run "make". > I'm guessing your original rule was willfully > over-simplified from something where it won't be as bogus ... Indeed, my problem isn't this simple. I have a single script that builds 5 different files, and it's not worth it to try breaking the script up. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > E.g., multiple explicit targets are just a shorthand way of writing > multiple rules, so make still expects to run one instance of the recipe > for each target. It is NOT a statement to make that one invocation of > the recipe will build all the targets. > > This interpretation has been true of every make ever created since the > first one in the 1970's and is mandated by the POSIX standard (not to > mention hundreds of thousands of makefiles already in existence). That's unfortunate. But I can see how in a time before -jN, this decision would be perfectly acceptable, and now it's too late to change. Thanks for the response. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
