Re: how to disable all checking of prerequisites

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 20:59 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >     i=1; while [[ $i -le 1000 ]]; do touch foo$i; : $((++i)); done
> > 
> > then creating a makefile with nothing in it but a target "foo" listing
> > all 1000 fooNNN files as prerequisites, and no rules to build any of
> > them.
> > 
> > When I run normal make, it takes an average of 0.23s to run.
> > 
> > When I run make -r, it takes an average of 0.006s to run.
> 
> Can you show this Makefile?  I'd like to time that on my system.

I just created it from the output of "ls", but see attached.

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