make with multiple executables from same source files

Gary Weimer weimer at ssd.kodak.com
Sat Nov 17 04:08:28 AEST 1990


In article <4196 at awdprime.UUCP> tif at doorstop (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
>I have two executables that depend on the same source files but are
>compiled with different CFLAGS.  Anybody have a good way to make a
>makefile understand this?

With SunOS's make, you can simply add this line to your Makefile:

.KEEP_STATE:

This causes make to remember the exact command used to compile each object.
Since the flags are changed, make sees this as a different compile which
has not yet been done.



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