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

2025-03-17 Thread Cook, Malcolm
AM To: Cook, Malcolm ; bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: order-only prerequisites themselves get rebuilt when not needed The patch attached to the savannah issue Dmitry provided below does include a doc change. I haven't reviewed it yet. Basically the current behavior is: To build target A: -

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

2025-03-17 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Hi, as someone who uses order only prerequisites frequently, I would appreciate at restatement of what the proposed change to behavior is so I can advise whether I expect my use cases to be affected. Perhaps in addition to a code patch a proposed documentation patch could help other lurkers ge