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Re: Idea: Standard way to negate special targets
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Paul Smith |
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Re: Idea: Standard way to negate special targets |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:31:25 -0400 |
On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 12:25 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> In addition, there's no obvious way to generalize that to
> prerequisites in general.
> Being able to remove prerequisites seems like something that
> should be rarely used, but very useful when it is needed.
> In particular, that'd simplify reusing generalized
> makefiles that are *almost* what you want.
I'm not convinced this aspect is a good idea at all. I'd need to think
more carefully about it.