Martin's snippet indeed recapitulates the behavior resulted in my
initial report.
As for Dmitry's reply: I don't understand if /make/ does what's expected
or not. I believed that A.4 being a prereq of A.4.ind will always
trigger the latter being rebuilt if A.4 is newer.
As a side note: I use make for running pipelines and add .SECONDARY
routinely because I don't want anything to be deleted as temporary file
-Mikhail
On 10/5/22 09:58, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 10:08 PM Martin Dorey
<martin.do...@hitachivantara.com> wrote:
Isn't this slightly simplified example sufficient to demonstrate the same
behavior...
A.4 is a preqreq to T.1 and also a prereq to A.4.ind.
A.4.ind is present and that's why make skips building secondary A.4
and keeps A.4.ind intact, while walking through A.4.ind prereqs.
T.1 is missing and this causes make to build A.4 in order to build
T.1, after A.4.ind is done with.
regards, Dmitry
