Re: Finding Circular Dependencies

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:04 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> But Make does construct _all_ of the graphs in memory, doesn't it?  It
> doesn't construct only those graphs it needs to work with, given the
> target(s), right?

Yes, but only for EXPLICIT rules (here I'm counting static pattern rules
as explicit rules).

Implicit rules such as pattern rules and suffix rules are computed at
runtime, as needed.

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