>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.
Not necessarily, I was just checking some other things, and I was startled to discover the apparently unnecessary checking, I thought if I could prevent this maybe I could save some time. There is lots of things that I discovered, that should in principle save time, but in practice don't - like converting implicit to explicit rules, once targets are discovered, or adding :; after all the sources to prevent implicit lookup. Typically the cost of maintaining these things, turns out to be about the same as the "savings". . Mark _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
