From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:20:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Compiling git with makepp patch
Message-ID: <20100826002045.GC2850@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <7v8w3upan6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

-- 8< --
#!/bin/sh

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

.SUFFIXES: .foo .bar
EOF

echo hello >test.foo &&
pmake test.bar
-- >8 --

fails while the corresponding script for GNU make succeeds.