On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:48 -0500, David Boyce wrote:
> As I understand it: GNU make does not *guarantee* that targets are
> built left to right, in the sense that there's no written standard
> which makes the promise.
Actually that's not true. The POSIX specification of make requires this
(from POSIX 2008):
The make utility shall treat all prerequisites as targets
themselves and recursively ensure that they are up-to-date,
processing them in the order in which they appear in the rule.
Cheers!
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