[bug #60399] Incorrect dependencies with grouped targets

[Paul D. Smith]

Update of bug #60399 (project make):

              Item Group:                     Bug => Enhancement            

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Re-reading this I think I want to retract my earlier comment that this does
not seem right.  I think that make's behavior here is correct.

But, I'm willing to be convinced otherwise if there are good arguments for
it.

The way a grouped target works is that a single invocation of the recipe
builds ALL targets.  This implies that if any single target in the set of
grouped targets is out of date, then all the targets will be built.  In this
example b is always out of date, and so the targets will always be built.

Just to check I tried using a pattern rule with multiple targets in this same
way (forcing only one of the targets to be out of date then explicitly
building the other one) and it worked the same way: both targets were rebuilt
rather than saying "up to date".

I'll leave this open as an enhancement to consider, and will be interested to
hear others' thoughts, but at this point I think the current behavior of GNU
make is correct and no changes are needed.

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