Re: [PATCH] order-only prerequisite ends up in $<

[Jim]

I'm not really sure if this falls in the same category, but the rule 
base is a pattern rule... it seems that something like

%.o:%.c | $(intermdiate_path)

intermediate_path is no longer order only, it is instead a valid rule, 
and that being a directory means it's often newer then the .o in certain 
filesystems.

in my make 3.80 under linux, $| doesn't have anything, $< is just the .c 
source file, other things have the intermediate path, but nothing 
indicates order only, as it would if the order only dependant was 
specified on a non-pattern rule...

> %% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ny> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>   >> %% Boris Kolpackov <address@hidden> writes:
>   bk> If you expect it to print 
>   >> 
>   bk> %r: | baz
>   >> 
>   bk> then look in read.c line 537. The dumping code simply does not 
>   bk> distinguish between normal and order-only prerequisites.
>   >> 
>   >> ITYM rule.c.
>   >> 
>   >> I have a fix for this already but maybe I haven't checked it in yet.
>
>   ny> Is this just a display bug?  Or does this affect actual processing?
>
> Just a display bug.
>
> The database dump function doesn't make a distinction between the
> order-only and "normal" prerequisites.