On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 07:12:22PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > In article <20170122174627.yjcvgdvn653wvt5d@danbala>, > Thomas Klausner <t...@giga.or.at> wrote: > >Hi! > > > >GNU make supports order-only prerequisites. For details, see > >https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Prerequisite-Types.html > > > >Is there an equivalent in BSD make? > > Our | -> .WAIT
No, that's not the same. .WAIT means that everything before .WAIT needs to be built before make builds the stuff after it. GNU make's '|' means that everything after the | needs to exist, but the target does not need to be rebuilt if anything to the right of | changes (IIUC). Thomas
