On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:28:51PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>
> It also says "The ordering imposed by .ORDER is only relevant for
> parallel makes." which doesn't match my expectations for | either.
For non-parallel makes the prerequisits are always processed
in the order they are specified
> I don't remember anything that just checks 'existance'
> without checking the timestamp.
Which, to epeat myself, would be extremely useful, especially for directories
(because adding a file means updating the directories mtime, which ...).
I always end up with something like
test -d ${d}
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:58:18 +0100
> From: Edgar Fuß
>
> > I don't remember anything that just checks 'existance'
> > without checking the timestamp.
> Which, to epeat myself, would be extremely useful, especially for directories
> (because adding a file means updating the directories mtime