Re: why are all prerequisites timestamps checked, even after one is found to be newer than target??

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:25:33 -0800
> From: Philip Guenther <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:40:39 -0800
> >> From: Philip Guenther <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> 1) if you don't use RCS or SCCS, then disable the pattern rules for
> >> checking out files from them with
> >>
> >> %:: %,v
> >> %:: RCS/%,v
> >> %:: RCS/%
> >> %:: s.%
> >> %:: SCCS/s.%
> >
> > Disable how? by rebuilding Make after removing them from the built-in
> > database of rules, or by something you put in a Makefile?
> 
> Umm, by including exactly the lines I gave above, as documented in the
> info, "Canceling Implicit Rules":

Thanks, I see the light now.