Re: [PATCH] Check .exe as well when a target does not exist on OS/2

[KO Myung-Hun]

Hi/2.

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 22:14 +0900, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
>>> But this does not seem like an easy thing to accomplish, at all. 
>>> What if there is a "%.exe" pattern rule, not an explicit rule for
>>> "foo.exe"?
>>
>> I think, it's possible to do so by finding a target as GNU Make finds
>> dependencies.
> 
> GNU Make doesn't try to resolve all the targets including all implicit
> targets first, then after they're all done try to build them.
> 
> Instead, it tries to build every target as it is needed.  So if you try
> to build "foo.exe" first and it finds an implicit target "%.exe" then
> you try to build "foo" second, it will see that the target "foo.exe"
> already exists.
> 
> But if you try to build "foo" first before "foo.exe", then there will
> be no target "foo.exe" yet because you haven't tried to build it, and
> it won't be found.  Note here the "foo.exe" has to be intermediate of
> course, otherwise it will be known to make even using an implicit rule.

What I meant is checking the existence of a rule for a target not a real
file built for a target.

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KO Myung-Hun

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