`call' function in `make'

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-05-26 17:55, "N. Raghavendra" <raghu at mri.ernet.in> wrote:
> At 2004-05-26T12:41:57+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:15:57PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote:
> > You have got a line:
> >
> >     .PHONY: dir1 dir2
> >
> > to force those rules to be applied even if dir1 or dir2 are newer than
> > their sources?
>
> Yes, I had tried that too, but it doesn't make the second rule work.
> The second rule does work with `gmake'.

Seems to work here.

    giorgos at gothmog[21:18]/tmp/lala$ cat Makefile
    DIRS=   alpha beta

    .PHONY: $(DIRS)

    all:    $(DIRS)

    clean:
            rmdir $(DIRS)

    alpha beta:
            mkdir $@
    giorgos at gothmog[21:18]/tmp/lala$ make
    mkdir alpha
    mkdir beta
    giorgos at gothmog[21:18]/tmp/lala$ ls -l
    total 6
    -rw-rw-r--  1 giorgos  wheel  -  94 May 27 21:18 Makefile
    drwxrwxr-x  2 giorgos  wheel  - 512 May 27 21:18 alpha
    drwxrwxr-x  2 giorgos  wheel  - 512 May 27 21:18 beta

Can you post the entire Makefile?

- Giorgos