Follow-up Comment #7, bug #62929 (project make): Thank you Paul for walking me through the means of participation.
Following is what I should've quoted, from 2.3 How make Processes a Makefile <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/How-Make-Works.html#How-Make-Works:~:text=By%20default%2C,Special%20Variables).>. > By default, make starts with the first target (not targets whose names start with ‘.’). This is called the _default goal_. I interpret this as that Make sets the _default goal_ as the first target encountered without containing the prefix '.'. Thus, considering both of my examples, Make should, in both cases, have chosen 'c' as _default goal_ since the other two both start with '.'. If I may express my opinion a little bit: I think there is a lack of treatment in the manual on how exactly relative pathing with dots are dealt with in writing targets and matching goals. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62929> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
