Re: The bugs in make v3.82

2010-09-29 Thread Paul Smith
Please send all questions to the mailing list, rather than emailing me personally. Thanks! On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 12:43 +0400, Alexander Kornilov wrote: > 1) Are the special target which executed before all other target? It's > maybe used for some initializations and preparing of build process >

Re: The bugs in make v3.82

2010-09-29 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Using a directory as a normal prerequisite is almost never what you > want. > > You have two choices. Three: wherever you currently declare a dependency on a directory, instead declare a dependency on a .exists file *in* that directory. Then have the rule for a .exists file create its directory