Re: Can changes in a makefile trigger a rebuild?

[Angel Tsankov]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Smith" <address@hidden>
To: "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden>
Cc: "ML: make-help" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Can changes in a makefile trigger a rebuild?


> 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.

You are damn right! I should have thought of this:(

> I am not familiar with the -M option.

The -M options prints out a rule that says that the input file depends 
on all the included files.
You can have a look at chapter 4.14  in the GNU Make manual for more 
information about it.

Regards,
Angel Tsankov
address@hidden