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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:43:04 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is the difference between ; and &&
Message-ID:  <20040108134304.GA3863@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040107233858.GM8322@submonkey.net>
References:  <200401071736.42467.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <20040107233858.GM8322@submonkey.net>

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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:38:58PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:

> > make depend && make && make install

> [Of course, if the Makefile has it's dependencies correct, then a simple
>  "make install" will achieve the same thing.]

Hmmm... Usually 'make depend' generates a dependency Makefile, which
is .included'ed into the main Makefile on subsequent runs.  That means
that

    make depend ; make all

has a different effect to:

    make depend all

Unless make(1) has been taught to keep tabs on it's included Makefiles
and knows how to re-load them if their modification time changes.  As
I understood it, that was a trick that gmake(1) could do but that BSD
make couldn't.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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