On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 10:32 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote: > I see. I grepped $? and it seems to me there is no way to prevent > that variable from being populated, so all the timestamps will always > be checked, nothing I can do about, right?
There is no way to disable the population of any of the automatic variables, no: they are automatically populated for every target before the target recipe is evaluated. I guess maybe Windows is different, but on POSIX systems the cost of doing the extra "stat" calls is not significant enough to try to make this behavior more complex just to avoid them. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
