> It might be interesting to have a make flag that would reverse the order
> in which dependencies are considered,
... or indeed randomise the order, so that repeated testing would
routinely catch any un-noticed dependencies.
Does anything actually specify that order of prerequisites in a rule
For the load directive, the docs say ...
The initializing function will be provided the file name and line
number of the invocation of the 'load' operation. It should return a
value of type 'int', which must be '0' on failure and non-'0' on
success. If the