On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 08:23:31PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > > 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.
Reading the man page, I don't think so. .ORDER is described as: "This ordering does not add targets to the list of targets to be made." and I think | does that. It also says "The ordering imposed by .ORDER is only relevant for parallel makes." which doesn't match my expectations for | either. Thomas
