Re: install rule not working

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From: Nate Eldredge
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 19:14

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> "Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> > 
> > If you can't use GNU make, you can use a FORCE rule, like this:
> > 
> >   install: FORCE
> >         ....
> > 
> >   FORCE: ;
> > 
> > Of course, this fails to work if you have a file named "FORCE" (or
> > "force", I guess, on case-insensitive filesystems).
> 
> Both FORCE and force will interfere with this.

You could use .PHONY to avoid that problem.

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge@hmc.edu

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