Re: Hard time figuring out what order-only prerequisites really do.(attachment again)

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden> writes:

  at> Prerequisite `SourceFiles/main.cpp' is older than target 
  at> `IntermediateFiles/main.o'.

  at> Prerequisite `IntermediateFiles' is newer than target 
  at> `IntermediateFiles/main.o'.           !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  this should be 
  at> Prerequisite `IntermediateFiles' is order-only for target 
  at> `IntermediateFiles/main.o'., shouldn't it?

Yes.

Are you sure you don't have other rules in this makefile or somewhere
that might be taking precedence over this pattern rule?


Try running make again with the -p option to see the rules database, and
look for all instances of IntermediateFiles there.  Where do you see it?

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