Re: Multiple targets with one command

[Noel Yap]

The issue is that make will execute the action once for each target.

Paul had posted a solution to this issue, but, IMHO, using marker files for 
such a thing is a bit of a hack.

Noel

Noel

Martin d'Anjou wrote:
> 
> Noel,
> 
> >Also, I do think it would be a good feature for GNU make to be able to
> >handle
> >commands that create more than one output file from one input file.  Does
> >anyone know if this has been requested in Savannah?
> >
> 
> I had the same problem, and I usually end up creating a rule and commands
> that look like this:
> 
> $(TARGET_DIR)/%.a $(TARGET_DIR)/%.b $(TARGET_DIR)/%.c: %.src
>         my_script $<
>         mv $*.a $(TARGET_DIR)
>         mv $*.b $(TARGET_DIR)
>         mv $*.c $(TARGET_DIR)
> 
> Is that the end result you are looking for? I do not see how this burden
> could be on make itself...
> 
> Martin
> 
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