Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Using the order-only prerequisites feature, which is what is failing with the
> old make version, solves item 1).
>
> The alternative is your suggestion
>
> If the dependencies
> need to stay as they are, maybe we could avoid the annoyance by having
> make not print the echo command.
>
> but I'm not a friend of hiding commands because you don't know what is going
> on and it will come back to bite you.
How about we use order-only prerequisite only if present, and use the
ugly or undesirable way as fallback? I see that you can find out if
your Make version supports it by checking .FEATURES.
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