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

[Noel Yap]

Jim wrote:

> 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...

If you simply touch $(intermediate_path), do all the .o's get rebuilt?

Thanks,
Noel