Re: Make's assumption that files it does not create do not change

[Renaud Pacalet]

On 13/04/2022 15:27, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 14:58 -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > I also somewhat regret implementing the feature because it is
> > unnecessary.
> > The feature is built on the the implementation of pattern rules,
> > which already supported multiple targets many years before &:.
>
> Just to mention that these options including &: and just using pattern
> rules were discussed in the GitHub issue and the followup comments so
> these were known to the folks implementing the change.
>
> I don't really agree that using pattern rules is a sufficient
> alternative.  Forcing targets to have a common stem is not always
> great.  I for one am happy that this feature exists!

Agreed. I was really expecting this feature. Not only because of the 
common stem constraint but also because most pattern rules that I was 
writing just for this grouped target feature were extremely unnatural. 
It even happened that somebody else decided to "fix" them because I had 
forgotten to add a big "don't touch" comment.

I am very happy too that this feature exists.
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