[bug #48643] Irrelevant targets can confuse make on which pattern rule to select.

2021-11-14 Thread Steven Simpson
Follow-up Comment #16, bug #48643 (project make): [comment #15 comment #15:] > If patch-v1 is applied and released, then users will start writing > makefiles which depend on this feature. This will slow down make, > including for those users who do not even use this feature. Okay. > Once this

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Introduce $(compare ...) for numerical comparison

2021-11-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 18:19 +0100, Jouke Witteveen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 4:08 PM Paul Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 2021-07-16 at 14:04 +0200, Jouke Witteveen wrote: > > > $(compare > > > @var{lhs},@var{rhs},@var{lt-part}[,@var{eq-part}[,@var{gt-part}]]) > > Let me ask this: would it be

[bug #48643] Irrelevant targets can confuse make on which pattern rule to select.

2021-11-14 Thread Dmitry Goncharov
Follow-up Comment #15, bug #48643 (project make): > Are you saying that this also should be the correct behaviour? I now realize, that inadequate description of example 3 was provided and caused misunderstanding. Let me provide a more verbose description. Make has to do both skip unrelated