Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps

[David Boyce]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ray Donnelly <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:03 PM, David Boyce <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The obvious compromise would be to change the behavior only in the
>> presence of the ".POSIX:" special target.
>
> Sounds pragmatic; the repeatable builds people would probably like a
> solution that doesn't require changing Makefiles though, either an
> env. var or a command line option?

The command line is always possible for a special target given Paul's
clever --eval option:

make --eval .POSIX: ...

And for an EV approach it should be possible to add that to an
exported MAKEFLAGS.