> I don't see why it makes a difference in how rule types should be ordered
A dependency graph is constructed by make scripts. > (I assume that by "ordered" you mean which rules are defined > first in the makefile). Yes. The possibility is supported to cancel implicit rules (which refer to targets that contain the placeholder “%”) on demand during a specific construction sequence. > Only if an explicit rule does not exist will an implicit rule search > be performed. I got the impression that this general handling might need another look for one of my test cases. > Makefiles are not like the shell or other interpreted languages where > commands are executed as they are parsed. They correspond to a special category of programming languages. I find that there are also functions supported which are immediately executed. Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
