On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 20:32 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:26:57 -0400 > > > > The concern I have about this is that it describes directory search as > > an operation that happens on prerequisites, but that's not how make > > works. Make does the directory search on targets. > > That's true, but (a) I wasn't the one who started talking about > prerequisites in that section,
I didn't say you could avoid mentioning prerequisites altogether: you can't (or at least I think if you do you'll be leaving out important concepts). > and (b) the details of the algorithm are really important only when > the target is a prerequisite of some other target. Obviously this depends on what you define to be "the details", but I don't think that's so: certainly it's important to know that even if you run "make a", so that "a" is not a prerequisite of anything else, if "a" can be found via directory search then this algorithm is in effect and the details of how it works DO make a difference. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
