Re: Order of consideration of missing include files is not documented

[Martin Dorey]

The order of generation of any targets that don't have dependencies is not 
documented.  This is deliberate because there is no defined ordering.  The 
targets may even be generated in parallel.

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Sent: Mon Sep 01 05:45:33 2008
Subject: Order of consideration of missing include files is not documented

Hi,

I noticed that if you include some files in a makefile like

include a.d b.d c.d

and make knows how to make them, then it firsts generates c.d, then b.d
and so on.

To me, at least, this reverse order of the include-file-list to generate
these files feels counter intuitive.

At least it is not documented - if didn't overlook it of course.

Best regards
Georg Sauthoff
-- 
Fortune : 'Real programmers don't comment their code.
           It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.' ;)


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