Re: Have GMAKE ignore timestamps

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Bhatt, Milan C" <address@hidden> writes:

  bmc> I was wondering if there was any simple way to get gmake to
  bmc> create a target without checking to see if the prerequisites are
  bmc> out of date.  So I'd like to create only the target and the
  bmc> prerequisites for that target that don't exist, but I don't want
  bmc> to create existing prerequisites even if they are out of date.

You can have your rule to create the targets test to see if it exists,
and if so not update it.

Obviously these rules will fire every time, but they won't actually
cause anything to happen.

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