On Sun, 2025-11-23 at 15:33 -0500, Joe Flack wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a feature request. Sorry, I was told to mail here, as opposed to a
> different list or a ticketing system.
>
> Me and others using make have frequently wanted this simple feature:
>
> "Run a goal, but ignore prerequisites. Act as if they don't exist."
>
> Please consider adding!
Well, if a prerequisite don't exist, how can a given rule be fired?
However, make --help tells us:
-o FILE, --old-file=FILE, --assume-old=FILE
Consider FILE to be very old and don't remake it.
Isn't it equivalent to the feature you ask?
Otherwise, at least give a use case with sample GNUmakefile (e.g. for POSIX
system)
Thanks.
NB I am French and don't understand the feature you want.
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