Order of consideration of missing include files is not documented

2008-09-01 Thread Georg Sauthoff
Hi, I noticed that if you include some files in a makefile like include a.d b.d c.d and make knows how to make them, then it firsts generates c.d, then b.d and so on. To me, at least, this reverse order of the include-file-list to generate these files feels counter intuitive. At least it is

Re: Order of consideration of missing include files is not documented

2008-09-01 Thread Martin Dorey
The order of generation of any targets that don't have dependencies is not documented. This is deliberate because there is no defined ordering. The targets may even be generated in parallel. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bug-make@gnu.org