Re: Ability to print the make database as json - experimental

2025-03-20 Thread David A. Wheeler
> On Mar 18, 2025, at 1:21 PM, Tim Murphy wrote: > > I've recently updated and rebased my experimental fork of make with the > branch that dumps the internal database of the makefile to JSON format files. I would *dearly* love to have the ability to receive a dump of the makefile database i

Re: order-only prerequisites themselves get rebuilt when not needed

2025-03-20 Thread Britton Kerin
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM Paul Smith wrote: > > I see from the patch: you don't mean "never" you mean, only if the > > prerequisite does not exist will it be updated. > > Right. > > > I agree this preserves probably the most common