Follow-up Comment #4, bug #64886 (project make):
Order-only beats phony.
If a target depends on an order-only prerequisite, then this prerequisite does
not cause the target to be updated, whether this prerequisite is phony or
not.
> i guess only issue might be, "should .PHONY: give an error for
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 09:11, Tim wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #64571 (project make):
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> > I'm just skeptical that this wouldn't degenerate into a morass of
> conflicting requests for new features.
>
> Maybe. But this is clearly a highly demanded feature just for
>
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #64571 (project make):
> I'm just not really that convinced that the simplest thing is going to be
useful to people.
People are already using hacky regexes which are even less useful.
> even internal ones etc
Yeah there were some internal targets that I didn't want
