On Mon, 2023-10-02 at 15:14 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> You should put the "important" prerequisite, if one exists, on the rule
> containing the recipe.  If that rule doesn't list any prerequisites,
> you are effectively saying that none of the prerequisites is special
> and they are all interchangeable.  In that case, $< doesn't really make
> sense; why would you need to get the first prerequisite specifically,
> if all the prerequisites are interchangeable?

TIL 💡

Noted down w/ thanks.

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Bahman

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