Re: conditional prerequisite

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Tristan Van Berkom <address@hidden> writes:

  tvb> You might want to start by :

  tvb> %.o:: %.c
  tvb>  gcc...

  tvb> %.o:: %.c %.other
  tvb>  gcc...

This won't work.  GNU make will always choose the first rule, because it
always will succeed, so it will never think about a .other file.

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