On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 11:42, Paul D. Smith wrote: > There are a number of suggestions already available in the bugs and > patches sections of GNU make's Savannah project. Something will appear > in the next version of GNU make.
The proposed command line options will not do, because users won't remember to use them. Oh, I suppose that my Makefile could _always_ recurse once to set these options, but that's very ugly, and it prevents using the normal behavior for some of the rules. I do like the idea of using the most pessimistic of the lstat() and stat() data, as long as it doesn't exclude pure lstat() usage or readlink() usage. Handling this like .PHONY still looks good to me: .LSTAT: my-symlink-rule another-rule yet-another (with .PHONY and .LSTAT conflicting of course) _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
