Re: (automake) How do I force an object file to be rebuilt every time?

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Donnerstag, den 30.10.2008, 13:34 -0700 schrieb Rich Fife:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a project that includes a version number that needs to be
> emitted on demand.  I want to put that version number by itself in a
> one line C file that other objects can link to (so the version can
> change without having to rebuild any particular file).  How do I get
> that one file (version_globals.c) to rebuild every time a build is
> called using configure.ac, makefile.am, etc?

You can declare it as a .PHONY target:

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Phony-Targets

Regards, Daniel