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

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 01:38 +0900, KO Myung-Hun wrote:
> What I meant is checking the existence of a rule for a target not a
> real file built for a target.

But how do you check for a "rule for a target"?

What if the pattern rule is "%e" not "%.exe"?  That will still match of
course.  Or "%xe" or whatever?  Or even "%o.exe"?  Are we going to
check to find any possible pattern rule that might match a ".exe" and
behave differently if we find one, even if it has nothing to do with
actually creating a .exe file?