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Re: [bug #58056] Forced prerequisite order is not honored with pattern r


From: Henrik Carlqvist
Subject: Re: [bug #58056] Forced prerequisite order is not honored with pattern rules
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:51:14 +0200

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:17:24 -0400 (EDT)
anonymous <address@hidden> wrote:

> Wait, so order-only prerequisites does NOT mean serialized make for
> these prerequisites?

Nope.

> "a situation where you want to impose a specific
> ordering on the rules to be invoked" ← That's not what this means?

Please read the rest of that sentence, and pay special attention to the
bold italic *without*:

"...*without* forcing the target to be updated if one of those rules is
executed".

Tha page has a good example explaining that order-only-prerequisites will
be created if needed but their updates will not cause your targets to be
rebuilt.

regards Henrik



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