Re: Why are circular rules not supported

[Dave Hylands]

Hi Olivier,

> What do you and the readers here think about it? If they seem to be a good
> idea, is there some "suggestion list" where I could submit these
> suggestions?

I think that what's really going on here (in the DVI/PS/PDF example)
is that you have dvi generated ps, and you have pdf generated ps.

I think that it's a mistake for these two different types of generated
files to have exactly the same directory/name.

If I were to create the DVI file, then create the PS, then create the
PDF, edit the DVI and then generate the PS from the PDF, you're now in
a situation where your PS file is out of date but there's no way for
make to know it.

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Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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