On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 08:59:01PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: >>>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).
which is what .ORDER is for. Supporting the syntax is a different question... that obviously we don't, but probably we could. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
