Re: why does touching Makefile allow make to know how to build dependency?

[Erik Rull]

Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> In a Makefile in a subdirectory of our top level directory, I have some
> rules:
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> outfile: infile
>
> cmd<  infile>  outfile
>
>
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> anotherFile: outfile

Have you considered newlines and tabs set correctly?

It should look like this:
outfile: infile
        cmd <  infile > outfile
(where the spaces before cmd must be a tab char!)
No blank line between the first and the second line.

> Regards,
>
>                  Graham

Best regards,

Erik