Re: [PATCH v3 21/23] Makefile: disable GNU make built-in wildcard rules

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Nov 17, 2021, 03:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20211117030030.nru2ntuxk63lhwqx@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <patch-v3-21.23-cb3ae5ce00b-20211116T114334Z-avarab@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:00:21PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> +### Remove GNU make implicit rules
> +
> +## This speeds things up since we don't need to look for and stat() a
> +## "foo.c,v" every time a rule referring to "foo.c" is in play. See
> +## "make -p -f/dev/null | grep ^%::'".
> +%:: %,v
> +%:: RCS/%,v
> +%:: RCS/%
> +%:: s.%
> +%:: SCCS/s.%

`MAKEFLAGS += -r` should have the same effect (and more)

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