Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Using the order-only prerequisites feature, which is what is failing with the > old make version, solves item 1). > > The alternative is your suggestion > > If the dependencies > need to stay as they are, maybe we could avoid the annoyance by having > make not print the echo command. > > but I'm not a friend of hiding commands because you don't know what is going > on and it will come back to bite you.
How about we use order-only prerequisite only if present, and use the ugly or undesirable way as fallback? I see that you can find out if your Make version supports it by checking .FEATURES. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
