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Re: (un)expected make behavior while using VPATH


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: (un)expected make behavior while using VPATH
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:03:19 -0500

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 23:56 +0200, adrian ilarion Ciobanu wrote:
> unfortunately, 'make' wouldn't warn the user with a
>     "non-.PHONY target build reported successful but I can't see it"
> typeof-message, so the EVERYONE user could figure out by himself he's
> about to do something wrong.

A warning mode could be provided that would show this type of thing.
I'm not sure about having it enabled by default; I'd have to think about
whether it would show too many false positives, or not.




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