On 01/18/2013 11:59 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The above is the way it's done everywhere else in the source tree.
>
> I think the reason this works is that either make or the system call
> that make uses is aware of this naming issue somehow.
Oh, hmm, all these years playing with this stuff and I never realized
msys make had these smarts built in, as it apparently does:
$ cat xx.make foo: touch foo.exe $ make -f xx.make touch foo.exe
$ make -f xx.make make: `foo' is up to date.
Sorry for the noise.
cheers
andrew
