goals starting with a period followed by a slash

2017-02-02 Thread Stefan Tauner
Hi, I was trying to avoid a recipe becoming the default goal by adding a . in front of its name. This worked as long as the target is just a name and not a complete path. This is because the code - ever since the initial commit in 1992 - checks for slashes in the target and ignores the dot/period

Re: goals starting with a period followed by a slash

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 16:53 +0100, Stefan Tauner wrote: > I don't know why it behaves differently with slashes in the goal and > would love to hear a rationale for that (and it being mentioned in > the documentation ;) > The current documentation reads as follows (emphasis mine): > > By default, th