Eli, I can not say any thing about your new wording as I think I have not yet understood the directory search algorithm completely. I have spent several hours without understanding it and unfortunately the manual keeps me stopped paragraph after paragraph...
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:23 PM, ali hagigat <[email protected]> wrote: > "prerequisite lists which contain this target" > > The first thing comes to mind after reading this sentence , is that we > have a target and some prerequisites. > One can not think that the target we are talking about is among a list > of words which make up our prerequisite list. > Because when a word is written in a prerequisite list, it is not a > target!! it is a prerequisite in the list!! > So this target may be a multiple-rule target which has some rules with > prerequisites and the pathname found is used for each prerequisite > item! > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:52:19 +0330 >>> From: ali hagigat <[email protected]> >>> >>> The source of confusion in the section, "4.4.3 How Directory Searches >>> are Performed", is that at the items 1 and 4, it talks about 'target' >>> but these two targets are different. When reading search algorithm, at >>> item 1, one imagines a rule which has a target, some prerequisites and >>> some commands. >>> Then in Item 4 it again talks about 'target', while this new target is >>> actually the prerequisite of the target of Item 1. >>> The distinction of target and prerequisite has not been indicated >>> well. One asks from himself after reading the text, the target of what >>> rule? The prerequisite of what rule? >> >> I don't understand the source of the confusion. A "prerequisite list" >> is a list of words; a list that "contains this target" is a list one >> of whose words is the target. What is confusing here, exactly? Can >> you give an example where this confusion comes to light? >> > _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
