[bug #48643] Irrelevant targets can confuse make on which pattern rule to select.

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #48643 (project make): Added 4 patches. fix, test, doc and news. The same changeset can be found in repo g...@github.com:dgoncharov/make.git on branch sv48643_retry_compat_rules. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #48643] Irrelevant targets can confuse make on which pattern rule to select.

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[bug #48643] Irrelevant targets can confuse make on which pattern rule to select.

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #48643 (project make): Let us say hello.c is missing, hello.f is present in the filesystem and consider the following example Example 1. all: hello.tsk %.tsk: %.c; $(info $@ from $<) %.tsk: %.f; $(info $@ from $<) unrelated: hello.c The current behavior is