Re: make: order-only prerequisites?

2017-02-13 Thread David Laight
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

make: existence-only prerequisites (was: make: order-only prerequisites?)

2017-02-13 Thread 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, which ...). I always end up with something like test -d ${d}

Re: make: existence-only prerequisites (was: make: order-only prerequisites?)

2017-02-13 Thread Taylor R Campbell
> 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