mark@drd.UUCP (Mark Lawrence) (06/29/89)
I note that in some Makefiles that come with Larry Wall's good stuff
(which we use as standard templates for our projects), that some targets
have a :: after them with no dependencies, e.g.
$(public)::
@case '${MFLAGS}' in *[ik]*) set +e;; esac; \
for i in $(DIRSTOMAKE);\
do \
(cd $$i ; echo "making $$i"; \
$(MAKE) $(MFLAGS)); \
done
I dug into my trusty Make User's guide (from Sun) and looked for the
meaning to no avail. Would somebody care to enlighten me via e-mail?
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