From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: forcing DJGPP's make.exe to proccess ALL lines
Date: 29 Jan 2001 13:57:41 GMT
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David Krmpotic <David DOT Krmpotic AT guest DOT arnes DOT si> wrote:
> how to force make to compile all files in makefile even if it thinks that
> "no new changes need to be made"

There is no general way. -W only lets you specify individual files
whose timestamp is then assumed to be 'brandnew' (and it seems to have
some problems if the file in question is only found by the VPATH
feature, i.e. it's exact name doesn't appear as an explicit
dependency, in the Makefile).

This is why every well-written makefile should have a target like
'clean' or 'realclean' which deletes all files that the other targets
would create. So if you really want to make everything from scratch,
you can "make clean all" and that's it.
-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.