Re: Serialization dependencies muck up configure-on-demand

2002-12-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dj> Oh, I can do it; in fact the autoconfery is trivial. I need to go dj> figure out why it isn't working as I expect though. Right now dj> saying "a : | b" appears to mean that b out-of-date does not dj> trigger remaking a, but "make a" s

Re: Serialization dependencies muck up configure-on-demand

2002-12-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:37:51PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Daniel mentioned: > >However, GNU make has the answer. We'd probably have to autoconf for > >this feature, it's quite new: > >* A new feature exists: order-only prerequisites. These > >prerequisites > > affect the order