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Re: how to enfore execution of some commands.
From: |
Noel Yap |
Subject: |
Re: how to enfore execution of some commands. |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:53:39 -0500 |
Cristian Zoicas wrote:
> Solution 2 (is this the correct one ?)
> --------------------------------------
>
> To put the following statments in the file Makefile.mak before the
> statment including "generated.mak"
>
> ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),main_target)
>
> include print_start_message
>
> print_start_message:
>
> echo "Makefile executed at" `date` > build.log
>
> endif
>
> when "Makefile" will be executed, it will try to include the file
> "print_start_message". This file does not exist and make will try to
> regenerate it. It will find a rule to generate it and this rule will
> print some messages in the file "build.log" but it will not generate
> any makefile "print_start_message".
I see a couple of improvements here:
1. "include print_start_message" really should be "-include
print_start_message" so that no warning message is generated.
2. using $(shell) is much clearer than the "include"-"rule" thing.
HTH,
Noel
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