On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:26:21PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
 > > > > -cleandir distclean: cleanlibdir
 > > > > +cleandir distclean: .WAIT cleanlibdir
 > > > 
 > > > I would have expected .WAIT to be a no-op in this context.
 > > 
 > > foo: bar
 > > foo: .WAIT baz
 > >
 > > [is the same as]
 > >
 > > foo: bar .WAIT baz
 > 
 > I think it's a bug that .WAIT affects things declared in different
 > lines, but OK, thanks for the explanation.

It's a separator, not a modifier. It's not a bug, just... counterintuitive.

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David A. Holland
dholl...@netbsd.org

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