On 08/11/2012 11:49 AM, Tim Murphy wrote: > For the sake of understanding you properly, if you can detect, remove and > add targets then 'replacing the recipe silently' is just these three > operations in sequence, right? > No. A target might be defined, but might have or not have an associated recipe. I was speaking only about changing such associated recipe, which GNU make is apparently able to do right today, albeit unconditionally printing a warning when it does so. It's because of this pre-existing ability that I suspect and hope it would be feasible to implement my originally proposed feature.
> We can already add targets but not the other two. > Actually, we can already add targets *but not* remove nor detect them, and we can already add recipes *and* override them (we just cannot do so avoiding warnings), but OTOH we cannot detect (not that I know of). Regards, Stefano _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
