Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:28:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
cc: George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: makefile help
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> >	all: foo
>              ^^^^ <- This way we generate a foo _and_ foo.exe! OTOH, GNU
> make doesn't make foo.exe if one puts in the all line just foo.exe!

This was done on purpose: the built-in rules of Make don't know how to
build foo.exe.  It doesn't hurt anything (except disk space) to have both
foo and foo.exe, but you do gain all the support Make can give you.