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

[Graham Menhennitt]

>> Graham Menhennitt wrote:

>> In a Makefile in a subdirectory of our top level directory, I have
some rules:

>> 

>> outfile: infile

>>     cmd<  infile>  outfile

>> 

>> anotherFile: outfile

> 

> Have you considered newlines and tabs set correctly?

 

Hi Erik,

 

Thanks for replying. As I said before, this is not a newbie question -
I've been using make since about 1979! And, if the makefile formatting
was incorrect, why would just touching the makefile fix it?

 

Graham