Re: why does make install depend upon all?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > but that doesn't make much sense.
>
> still no:  there are people who really do _not_ want "make install"
> to create new files (because that's the way they want to do installs).
> When they see it doing that, it's a bug.

A responsible person will do a 'make' prior to doing 'make install'. 
Unless there is a bug in the build process, or a filesystem problem, 
no additional files will be generated by the 'all' target during 'make 
install'.

Bob
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