Re: make --always-make-but-just-this-file

Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:02:50 +0100

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On Thu, 2026-03-05 at 22:13 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I found something make cannot do.
>=20
> $ make --always-make file.xyz
> remakes the entire tree.
>=20
> So make is missing
> $ make --always-make-but-just-this-file file.xyz
>=20
> Sure, there are workarounds.
> One might even edit the Makefile.
> But no way to do it more succinctly.


GNU make 4 can be configured to be scriptable with Python and/or GNU
guile (a Scheme dialect).

I guess you could add your script to do so.

Regards.
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