Re: Contrib PROGRAM problem

On 01/18/2013 11:59 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The above is the way it's done everywhere else in the source tree.
>
> I think the reason this works is that either make or the system call
> that make uses is aware of this naming issue somehow.


Oh, hmm, all these years playing with this stuff and I never realized 
msys make had these smarts built in, as it apparently does:
   $ cat xx.make   foo:            touch foo.exe   $ make -f xx.make   touch foo.exe
   $ make -f xx.make   make: `foo' is up to date.


Sorry for the noise.

cheers

andrew