Re: Multiple rules for same target: what is the order of prerequisites in $^ and what does $< expand to?

[Renaud Pacalet]

On 9/27/23 16:32, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 12:16 +0200, Renaud Pacalet wrote:
>
> > 3. Ignore all other implicit rules (which seems to contradict 4.11).
>
> Make only ignores the implicit rules for which there are
> explicit/static equivalents.

Thanks for your answer, Bahman. Not sure what "equivalent" means but with the 
following Makefile:

%.a: %.b

a.a: a.c
    echo $^

I would not say that the pattern rule and the explicit rule are equivalent 
because they have different prerequisite lists, the former has no recipe, the 
latter has one. Yet, running 'touch a.c a.b; make -s a.a' prints only 'a.c', 
which shows that the pattern rule is ignored.

> > Can someone confirm?
>
> Good summary!  That makes sense as my understanding goes.

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