Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 12:38:04 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
> >It can be irritating as hell, but I couldn't come up with any reasonable
> >fix. Maybe somebody can come up with a better .hdepend strategy that won't
> >have that confusion. I couldn't make "make" do what I wanted any way that
> >didn't have this problem.
>
> Would .PRECIOUS /path/file.h for all .h files at the end of the
> .hdepend files fix the problem?

I wouldn't know, because it's not documented in the man-page due to the
silly FSF hatred towards man-pages and being easy to use.

What does .PRECIOUS do? I assume it avoids removing the file, and if so,
yes it sounds like it would fix the issue, but it is actually officially
documented and supported?

Linus

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