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I can see what are you talking about. You need to use order only dependencies for this: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Prerequisite-Types.ht

• foldr 11y ago
  How do those help exactly? I believe you, but it's far from obvious, and it arguably makes more sense to use Gulp than to fiddle around with obscure features of GNU Make.
  • roolebo 11y ago
    Order-only prerequisites are needed whenever your rules depend on existence of some directories. So directories become make goals too in a sense. Obviously it's way too tedious to write all that by hand. You can have some sort of high-level js.mk scattered in each directory of your project, then there's a top level Makefile which will include all those js.mk files and expand them from high level definitions to make rules. Make is good only if you create a sort of framework around for your domain. However the learning curve is way too steep. I would only attempt to use make if Gulp does its job horribly bad.