Re: a few basic doubts

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:04:38PM -0700, Payal wrote:
> Hi,
> Please excuse for these basic doubts. 
> 
> 1) $ cat Makefile 
> a.tar: data
>         tar -cvf $@ $^
> 
> d.tar: sharu
>         @echo hi
> 
> $ make
> make: `a.tar' is up to date.
> $ make d.tar 
> hi
> $ make d.tar 
> hi
> 
> My doubt it why did it print "hi" the last time too. I expected,
> make: `d.tar' is up to date.
Make examine your filesystem and as there is no file named d.tar it
cannot be up-to-date.

> 4) How do I define a variable-name with a space in between like 'my
> tar'?  (I understand tht it is a bad habit to do so.

empty :=
space := $(empty) $(empty)
mytar := my $(space) tar

May I suggest you to read through "make info" to answer your other questions.

        Sam