LinuxQuestions.org - make does not say 'up to date'

no Hko, there is no

Code:

prog: main.c

and thats a humongous makefile, containing a lot of sub-makefiles, but these are the essential details.
these are the sub-makefiles:

Code:

a.mk aa.mk ... ae.mk

b.mk ...

c.mk  ...

d.mk  ...

e.mk  ...

f.mk  ...

g.mk  ...

h.mk  ...

i.mk  ...

j.mk  ...

.

.

.

z.mk  ...  ze.mk

each of these makefiles contain something like this. pls assume that all the symbols in $(...) have been predefined.

Code:

#  a.mk



COBOL_OBJECTS=\

                  $(SOME_DIR)/cob1.o \

                  $(SOME_DIR)/cob2.o



PASCAL_OBJECTS=\

                  $(ANOTHER_DIR)/pas1.o \

                  $(ANOTHER_DIR)/pas2.o



a: $(COBOL_OBJECTS) $(PASCAL_OBJECTS)

        $(COB) -Z $(COBOL_OBJECTS) $(PASCAL_OBJECTS) -o $(LIB_DIR)/liba.sl



.cbl.o: 

        $(COBOL) $(COBOPTS) -c $< -o $@



.p.o:

        $(PASCAL) $(PASOPTS) ...



clean:

        <rm commands>

thats about the sub-makefiles. the actual 'makefile' is like this

Code:

# final makefile



all: MAKE_SOME

          make -f a.mk  a

          make -f b.mk  b

          make -f c.mk  c

          make -f d.mk  d

          make -f e.mk  e

          .

          .

          .

          make -f z.mk  z



MAKE_SOME:

          make -f aa.mk  aa

          make -f ab.mk  ab

          make -f ac.mk  ac

          make -f ad.mk  ad

          make -f az.mk  ae



clean:

          make -f a.mk  clean

          make -f b.mk  clean

          make -f c.mk  clean

          make -f d.mk  clean

          make -f e.mk  clean

          .

          .

          .

          make -f z.mk  clean



# and so on

is this enough description? thanks for any help.