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Re: Can changes in a makefile trigger a rebuild?


From: Ken Smith
Subject: Re: Can changes in a makefile trigger a rebuild?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:03:32 -0400
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:00:55AM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Can a makefile decide to rebuild a project if it (the makefile) has 
> changed since the latest build?
> Note, this would probably require make to have a -M option so that 
> included makefiles are also taken into account.
> 
> Angel Tsankov
> address@hidden 

The way to do this is to have the targets depend on the makefiles.  I am
not familiar with the -M option.  It is certainly not necessary here.

ALL_MAKEFILES := Makefile include.mk

target: prerequisites $(ALL_MAKEFILES)
        commands

  Ken




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