Follow-up Comment #1, bug #62936 (project make): I don't know why you say "you cannot update a non-existing file": make does this all the time! When you start make in a clean directory there are no object files, for example, and so those files are non-existing but yet of course make will still update them.
By "update" the make manual means "run the recipe for that target". It doesn't mean "modify an existing file or fail if the file doesn't already exist". This term is used everywhere in the manual, to mean that same thing. I guess I don't understand the issue well enough to suggest a better formulation either. Maybe if you can say what "case" you mean when you say "how Make deals with this case" then it would become more clear where we might enhance the document to be less confusing. As for "leave well enough alone" that's a very common idiom; for example: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/leave-well-enough-alone _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62936> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
