Actually, the method you describe here has been used in GNU's automake
tool for quite a while. I wrote up a description of it and it's at my
web site, referenced below.
This method also uses an already-existing feature of GNU make, which
serves the same purpose as the patch you provided (allowin
Attached is an enhancement I made to make-3.97.1 which adds a new
feature: when a preqrequisite's file name begins with a hyphen, it is
marked dontcare (and the hyphen stripped). Then during rebuilding, if
that file doesn't exist and can't be remade, 'make' silently proceeds.
This is useful for
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Hello!
I've found a strange behaviour of make v3.79.1. A sample of the Makefile is
joined with this mail. The interesting part is the $(BASE) rule:
$(BASE): $(BASE).h $(OBJ2) $(OBJ1).o
@echo "it's okay..."
This rule indicate to generate $(BASE).h if it doesn't exists, a special
