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Subject: | Re: What I learned today... |
From: | Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> |
To: | [email protected] |
Date: | Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:42:12 -0500 |
On 03/01/2013 06:55 AM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:51:51 Michael Davidsaver wrote:... I don't think this is the case as long as the command './create_some_files.pl' creates all three files (which I assume it what you intended).I attached a simple test example that exhibits the above behaviour.
You are correct. It seems that gnumake does _not_ test for the existence of the target file immediately before executing the rule. I'm going to refrain from guessing at the logic behind this.
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/rules-multiple-outputs-gnu-make