[FFmpeg-cvslog] r12595 - trunk/Makefile

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 05:19:27PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:15:14AM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> >> diego wrote:
>> >>> Log:
>> >>> cosmetics: Rename 'all' target to 'main'.
>> >>> This is in preparation for common.mak inclusion in the main Makefile.
>> >> ... oh... was just about the complain about this change breaking one of
>> >> FATE's assumptions, but I see that it was intentional.
>> > 
>> > Ummmmm, are you calling 'make all'?  This is a very brittle way of
>> > calling the default target.  Just use plain 'make'.
>> 
>> True. The reason I was doing this is because I also wanted to build
>> tiny_psnr in one command. I have taken that part out since I don't need
>> the psnr tool right now. It's now just 'make main' which is also brittle
>> as you say. I guess I should change it to plain 'make' and append '&&
>> make <something_else>' if I need something else later on.
>
> Yes.  There is no guarantee that it will not change again.  Just run

Plain "make" with no arguments is equivalent to requesting the first
target in the makefile, whatever its name.

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