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Re: [build/rfc] automatic md file dependencies
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:08:18PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Then why have a stamp file at all?
Ah yes, now i remember. It seems that if make sees "include foo",
and there's a rule for foo, then it will try to satisfy it. Which
leads to the undesirable behaviour of building stuff in make clean.
So the stamp file is a bit of indirection to keep make from seeing
the link between the include and the rule to create the include.
r~