[Remind-Fans] daemon mode - include file update

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:21:36 +0100
Christoph Scheurer <christoph.scheurer at web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > > > You could touch it from a cron job so ...
> > > If you use a directory with your main reminders file and all the
> > > included files you can express the dependencies easily with a
> > > Makefile [...]

> > "make: Circular reminders <- reminders dependency dropped."
> > 
> > Presumably this happens because main is dependency as well as
> > target. Is there a way to exclude main from the include list?
> 
> You can avoid that by filtering out the main reminders file like this:
> 
> reminders: $(filter-out $@, $(REMIND_INCLUDES))
> 	@touch $@


REMIND_INCLUDES = $(wildcard *)

main: $(filter-out $@, $(REMIND_INCLUDES))
	@touch $@

This works but I am still getting the above error.


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Best Regards,

Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz


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