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Re: makefile target "all:" not built automatically
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Paul Smith |
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Re: makefile target "all:" not built automatically |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:34:51 -0400 |
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 13:31 +0100, Jon Grant wrote:
> I noticed that the "all:" target must be at the top of a makefile,
> unless explicitly built by "make all". Is this expected? It seems
> quite limiting..
There is nothing special about the "all" target. That's just a
convention that many, but not all, makefile authors use. Make itself
doesn't treat the "all" target, if it exists, in any special way.
The GNU make manual says:
> The order of rules is not significant, except for determining the
> "default goal": the target for `make' to consider, if you do not
> otherwise specify one. The default goal is the target of the first
> rule in the first makefile.
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