On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 18:34:47 -0400, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > A pseudo-target .WONTCREATE: > If that target exists in the makefile then the target existence > checking is enabled, as follows: > - Any PHONY rule is not considered > - After any target is built that actually invoked at least one command, > the existence of the target make expected is checked. > If it does exist, then no error is given. > - If the target does NOT exist, then the target is checked against the > prerequisites of .WONTCREATE. If the target is a prerequisite of > .WONTCREATE, then no error is given. > - Else make generates an error as the recipe did not create the target.
I love it! That's a much better implementation of the goal, thanks. If I understand correctly, that means that a single: .WONTCREATE: will be enough to detect a problem if *all* my rules are supposed to always create the non-PHONY targets. That gets me the error detection I was looking for! I separately posted "Idea: Allow certain special targets as dependencies". If that is accepted, I would add .WONTCREATE to that list of special targets, so people could do this: ~~~~ .WONTCREATE: # By default fail if rule won't create its target # Don't fail when my_command fails to create weird-thing weird-thing: .WONTCREATE otherthing <TAB>my_command ~~~~ --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
