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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:
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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