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From: Denis Bernard <dbernard AT teleglobe DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: problems with makefiles
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:54:56 -0400
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Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
> 
> Hi. I've been using Bison for some time to build a small language, and it
> appears to give me lots of problems in conjunction with make. In order to
> make my lang.c file for example, my makefile has the following lines
> 
> lang.c lang_tab.h: lang.y $(HEADERS)
>         bison -y -d lang.y
>         update y_tab.c lang.c
>         update y_tab.h lang_tab.h
> 
> lang.o: lang.c
> 
>         ...
> 
> Trouble is, make does a lot of redundant work: it runs bison twice and
> consequently recompiles lang.c twice too, for some reason that escapes me.
> Make was invented in order to avoid redundant compiles, but it appears to
> be adding to them here. What's going on? Is there something wrong with my
> makefile?
> 
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> University of the Philippines                           Rafael R. Sevilla
> PABX/OVCA: Diliman Networking Project          rsevilla AT sauron DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

I use bison and I have no problems.  Your makefile may have a line like

HEADERS= ... lang_tab.h ...

this may be your problem.  remove lang_tab.h from HEADERS.

here is my own makefile.

Denis.
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TARGET=o.exe
SRCS=s.c sql_tab.c lexyy.c
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)

CFLAGS=-Wall

all: $(TARGET)
	echo End of compilation

$(TARGET): $(OBJS)
	gcc -o $(TARGET) $(OBJS)

sql_tab.h sql_tab.c: sql.y
	bison -d sql.y

lexyy.o: lexyy.c sql_tab.h
	gcc $(CFLAGS) -c lexyy.c

lexyy.c: l.fle
	flex l.fle

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