On June 9, 2019 9:50:53 PM EDT, Paul Smith wrote:
>On Sun, 2019-06-09 at 19:21 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Y
On Sun, 2019-06-09 at 19:21 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> 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.
Yes, that's the idea.
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On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 18:34:47 -0400, Paul Smith 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,
>
On Sun, 2019-06-09 at 17:13 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> I propose a new special target .MUSTCREATE.
> Its prerequisites would list the targets that would fail in error
> if the target rule is run and it fails to create the target.
> If there's nothing on the list, then all non-.PHONY targets w
