Update of bug #17881 (project make):
Status:None => Fixed
Assigned to:None => psmith
Open/Closed:Open => Closed
Component Version:
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #17881 (project make):
Actually, make _does_ guarantee that rules will be processed in left-to-right
order. If you never use parallelism, you can be sure your rules will always
run in that order.
If you do use parallelism, though, obviously more than one of these
URL:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17881
Summary: Better documentation of make rules
Project: make
Submitted by: hyc
Submitted on: Thursday 09/28/2006 at 20:26
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Bah. Pretty sure I selected Documentation for this submission, not
Enhancement.
Howard Chu wrote:
URL:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17881
Summary: Better documentation of make rules
Project: make
Submitted by: hyc
Submitted on:
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #17881 (project make):
It might be worthwhile to add some kind of makefile validation flag, which
processes all prerequisites in random or right-to-left order, specifically to
expose occurrences of incorrect prerequisites.
