Re: Compiling git with makepp patch

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Aug 26, 2010, 00:20 UTC

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<20100826002045.GC2850@burratino>

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

>>> Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>>> GNU make, unlike, say, pmake, reads all the rules before it runs
>>>> anything iirc.

[...]

> I am not sure about the "reread" part, but shouldn't all POSIX compliant
> make be topology driven (i.e. " reads all the rules before it runs
> anything")?

Yes, you are right.

I was thinking of something else, namely that

cat <<\EOF >Makefile &&
.foo.bar:
	cp $< $@

fails while the corresponding script for GNU make succeeds.