On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:14:45PM -0400, Noel Yap wrote:
Can you copy and paste your command lines and output, please?
Thanks,
Noel
address@hidden:~/UCSF/peter/R/mspath/src/maketest$ touch x.cc
address@hidden:~/UCSF/peter/R/mspath/src/maketest$ touch x.o
address@hidden:~/UCSF/peter/R/mspath/src/maketest$ touch m.web
address@hidden:~/UCSF/peter/R/mspath/src/maketest$ make x.o
tangling web
touch x.cc
touch m.touch
address@hidden:~/UCSF/peter/R/mspath/src/maketest$ make x.o
compiling x
touch x.o
address@hidden:~/UCSF/peter/R/mspath/src/maketest$ cat Makefile
m.touch: m.web
@echo tangling web
touch x.cc
touch m.touch
x.cc: | m.touch
@echo x.cc rule
x.o: x.cc
@echo compiling x
touch x.o
# I changed the order of commands in m.touch (relative to my original
# post)for greater realism, but it made no difference.