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Re: Why rules depends on the same target behave differently if the comma


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Why rules depends on the same target behave differently if the commands are different?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:40:55 -0400

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 15:13 -0500, Peng Yu wrote:

> /tmp/double_targets_same_command$ make
> a
> echo 'a' > a; sleep 1; echo 'b' > b

Here one command (the one for building "a") also builds "b", so when
make goes to see if "b" is out of date or not, it finds that "b" is
up-to-date (it was just built) and so there's nothing to be done for
"b", and make stops.

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