Re: producing more than one target? (was: prerequisites of targets are not made?|?]

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Alessandro Vesely <address@hidden> writes:

  av> Is there a generic mechanism for simultaneously producing more
  av> than one target?

There's a trick you can use, like this:

    foo: real.1
    bar: real.2

    real.1 real.2: .dummy

    .dummy:
            <Rule to create real.1 & real.2>
            @touch $@

  av> If not, does GNU make deserve one? Shall we discuss that here?

There was a proposal for a new kind of explicit rule syntax that allowed
you to define a rule as creating multiple targets at once.  It hasn't
been implemented though.

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