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gnu make: any way to auto-"touch" prior dependencies?
Posted by isaac on February 10th, 2004


In a make file, say I want to skip steps prior to step C even though
steps A and B are out of date. I know I can manually touch A and B.
Is there a way to have make automatically touch all prior dependencies
for a given step, thereby allowing them to be skipped?

Thanks,

Isaac

Posted by Bob Hauck on February 11th, 2004


On 10 Feb 2004 13:03:23 -0800, isaac <isaacjunk@hotmail.com> wrote:

Would "make -t" do what you want?


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Posted by isaac on February 18th, 2004


Bob Hauck <postmaster@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<slrnc2j15n.75t.postmaster@cardinal.haucks.or g>...
Ah yes, thanks. Missed it in the man page.