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Subject: RE: Makefile target given more than once (Re: 3.1.6-dev-17)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:34:38 +0300
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> }
> } gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tools/src/zsh-3.1.6-dev-17/Doc'
> } Makefile:217: target `zsh.texi' given more than once in the same rule.
>
> Hrm.  This would appear to be gmake cleverly discovering that when $(sdir)
> is ".", zsh.texi and $(sdir)/zsh.texi are the same target.
>
> Does that actually cause the build to fail, or is it just noise?
>

So far it is just noise. But why we need two targets? One is obviously
redundant.

> Can we count on other "make" implementations being that clever?  I didn't
> think so, but ...
>

I stopped trying native make long ago. I'm even not sure, that it is
possible at all with current makefiles.

/andrej