On Tue, 2023-05-23 at 09:13 +, Zoltán Turányi wrote:
> So here is the idea. What if a subsequent invocation of make (in a
> subdir)– instead of building the target it is given – would just
> parse the makefile, create a full ruleset internally and inject this
> ruleset into the parent make’s
On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 04:20 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> What I want to achieve is that a and b can be made independently,
> but when both of them are made, a is always made first. I assumed
> that's what order-only prerequisites are for
That's not what it's for. In fact, you can't achieve
On Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:29:15 +0200
> As I said, a way to specify in which order recipes are invoked
> (here, a before b) if they are invoked, without influencing whether
> they are invoked (only a, only b or a and b, as given on the command
> line).
So you really don't want any target to depend
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> > Consider this makefile:
> >
> > .PHONY: a b
> > a:; @echo a
> > b:; @echo b
> > b: | a
>
> Your problem with this Makefile is that it never creates any files a or b.
That's why I made them phony. But that was just for demonstration.
I get the same effects with this
