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On Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:51:51 Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> On 02/28/2013 09:57 AM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 28, 2013 09:41:14 Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> >> Makefiles are so much fun...
> >> 
> >> If you don't like creating marker files (which must be cleaned) you can
> >> 
> >> also do:
> >>> one two three: create_some_files.pl
> >>> 
> >>>      ./create_some_files.pl
> >>> 
> >>> three: two
> >>> two: one
> >> 
> >> This creates a dependency chain forcing sequential execution.
> > 
> > Yes, but...
> 
> > (1) The script can be called more often than necessary:
> I don't think this is the case as long as the command
> './create_some_files.pl' creates all three files (which I assume it what
> you intended).

I attached a simple test example that exhibits the above behaviour.

Cheers
-- 
Ben Franksen
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all: one two three

one two three: create_some_files.sh
	./create_some_files.sh

three: two
two: one

clean:
	rm -f one two three files_created

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