Re: Make does not build a missing prerequisite.

[Maxim Yegorushkin]

On 09/10/14 11:31, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:

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> > > What happens is that make correctly identifies that data_access.cc
> > > depends
> > > on data_access.reflect.h, finds an implicit rule that generates
> > > data_access.reflect.h, rebuilds the dependencies of
> > > data_access.reflect.h
> > > but neglects to build data_access.reflect.h itself.

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It turned out data_access.reflect.h was treated as an intermediate file 
and hence make did not want to create it. data_access.cc itself is 
considered an intermediate file.

The fix was to make data_access.o depend on data_access.reflect.h 
because data_access.o is not an intermediate file.

Maxim