Re: Contrib PROGRAM problem

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Contrib PROGRAM problem
Date: 2013-01-19 05:13:24
Message-ID: 50FA2B74.30402@dunslane.net
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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

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