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Re: How to force a compilation ?
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>>>>"bj" == BERTRAND Joël <joel.k.bertrand@free.fr> writes:
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> [...]
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> bj> It works fine. But, when I run "make", a file named rpl.c must
> bj> be recompiled. How can I do that ?
>
> What do you mean?
>
> If rpl.c must be compiled as rpl.o, just list rpl.c in the
> relevant *_SOURCES variable of your Makefile.am.
rpl.o is built from rpl.c and rpl.h. But I would recompile this file
when "make" is done (even if rpl.o is up to date, because the gcc
command line contains "-Ddate=..." which changes.).
> If rpl.c must be generated from some other files, list it in a
> *_SOURCES variable too (or maybe a nodist_*_SOURCES variable)
> and add a custom rule to build it.
>
Regards,
JKB