RE: remake of a makefile

[Asperheim, Eric]

Kilu,

I'm not sure I can answer your question exactly. But, I was able to get
gmake to remake the Makefile. A simplified example is below. In your
example, I don't see a command to create the .mk file. Plus, I'm not sure
why you're trying to use a double-colon rule. From gmake doc on double colon
rules "... mechanism for cases in which the method used to update a target
differs depending on which prerequisite files cause the update, and such
cases are rare."

Makefile : <Makefile dependency>
        @ createMakefile <Makefile dependency>


On a non-gmake topic, my wife and I were in Murren, Switzerland a year ago.
We very much enjoyed Switzerland and hope to make it back some day when our
kids are older.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Krzysztof Horecki [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:37 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: remake of a makefile




Hi,

I try to install a warning in case the makefile or rather one of its
includes was modified:

%.mk ::
        @echo WARNING! makefile: $@ has been changed

yet make sees the rule, but by no means I can make it remake the %.mk
file:

 Considering target file `../ui/ui.mk'.
  Looking for an implicit rule for `../ui/ui.mk'.
  Trying pattern rule with stem `ui'.
  Found an implicit rule for `../ui/ui.mk'.
  Finished prerequisites of target file `../ui/ui.mk'.
 No need to remake target `../ui/ui.mk'.

(I use make 3.79.1)

Kilu


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