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Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps?


From: Noel Yap
Subject: Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:22:17 -0500
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:

certainly, if you were doing a parallel make, make would have the
freedom to process the dependencies any way it wanted, no?

IIRC, even in a serial make, make has the freedom to process the dependencies 
any way it wanted.  The left-to-right behaviour is just a side effect of this 
particular implementation of make in its current incarnation.  It's allowed to 
change in the future.

Noel





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