On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 21:18 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > It's not acceptable (to me) to only show the one newest file, not > > all files that are newer than the target, because often you want to > > know all the newer files. > > You say "It's not acceptable (to me) to only show the one newest > file", and I say "A tool that shows me 3.7 KB worth of file names in > one line is useless to me, because that is information overload, and > I don't have good filtering skills".
I think your problems with the output were addressed in GNU Make 4.4. Anyway I don't see that. I honestly don't see any point in just printing the "newest" prerequisite. If the rule was invoked in the first place then you already know that _some_ file was newer. What's the added benefit of knowing the name of only one, essentially random, prerequisite?
