edski@rover.UUCP (Ed Skinner) (06/17/87)
Using the non-interactive version of make(1) with Turbo C, I encountered a
minor, but annoying bug: A makefile dependency which has no predecessor is
assumed to be "current." Other systems assume it to be "not current." The
typical "clean:" dependency is NOT executed on "make clean" in what follows;
------------------------------- example fragment ----------------------------
clean:
- del *.exe
- del *.com
----------------------------- end of example fragment ----------------------
To avoid the problem, add an argument to any existent file. Then, because
there is no file named "clean", the commands will always be done.
-------------------------------- workaround fragment -----------------------
clean: makefile
- del *.exe
- del *.com
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