I don't know the answer except to point out that someone, not sure who, has worked out how to solve this problem within the existing capabilities of GNU make. I believe this clever technique is now used in the Linux kernel makefiles and a number of other places. This presumably lessens the pressure to implement it with new GNU make syntax and makes the new feature less likely to happen. However, it would still be best if GNU make had (optional) native support.
David Boyce On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:01 PM, toby cabot <t...@caboteria.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Greetings from the GNU Volunteer Coordinators[0]. > > There's an item in the GNU task list[1] that reads "Add features to > GNU Make to record the precise rule with which each file was last > recompiled; then recompile any file if its rule in the makefile has > changed." This task has been in the task list for longer than I've > been involved with GNU (i.e., more than a decade), is it still needed? > Has someone accomplished this yet? Do you still think it's something > that you want to do? I'd be happy to keep it; I just want to check if > it's still relevant. > > Thanks, > Toby > > [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/tasklist/howto-volunteer.html > [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=3972&job_id=200 > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make >
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