[Buildroot] [PATCH 12/16 v3] core: handle .br-external in a make rule

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Aug 28 10:49:33 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 00:22:35 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > I'm probably missing something, but where is this make target being
> > "triggered" ?  
> 
> When make encounters a -include directive, and the file to be included
> is the target of a rule, then make will trigger the rule before including
> the file, even if the rule is defined after the inclusion (make parses
> makefiles in multiple passes).

Ah, OK. Didn't know that arguments of the include directive where
handled as make targets. Make sense, thanks!

Thomas
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