Re: [rfe] dontcare for prerequisites

[Scott McPeak]

Ok, after reading over what's there, I agree it does everything I need.  
Thanks for the pointer.

I think the 'make' manual should include the "advanced" autodependency
technique, since the "basic" way is broken (or is there some circumstance
where "basic" works but "advanced" does not?).

-Scott

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Paul D. Smith wrote:

> Actually, the method you describe here has been used in GNU's automake
> tool for quite a while.  I wrote up a description of it and it's at my
> web site, referenced below.
> 
> This method also uses an already-existing feature of GNU make, which
> serves the same purpose as the patch you provided (allowing make to not
> fail if the header file is renamed or removed).
> 
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