On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:34:15 -0500 Dmitry Goncharov <[email protected]> wrote: > What about a dedicated rule that downloads what you need and is not a > prerequisite of the default target? You can run such rule manually > whenever needed.
It would also be possible to make those downloaded files order only prerequisites of their targets. With order only prerequisites, they will not be downloaded again unless they have been removed, maybe by some target called with something like "make clean-download". regards Henrik
