RE: The explanation of order-only prerequisites is not clear

[David Ferguson]

Ali,
You're abusing the privilege you've been granted.  People on this list are more 
than happy to help educate newbies and experts alike.  You've been the 
recipient of consultant advice worth literally tens of thousands from the best 
resources on the planet.  And yet, you continue to start almost every message 
with an inflammatory, accusatory tone and statement.    And then plead for 
help. 

Amazingly enough, the document you repeatedly disparage has been incredibly 
useful, clear, and concise to myself and thousands of others who have used it 
to guide development projects supporting 10 - 10000 developers. 

Could you please TRY not to insult the few people who are still trying to help 
you?

-daf


> -----Original Message-----

... 
> I asked you to explain it but you only repeated what was in 
> the manual!! I have the manual dear and if it was clear I 
> never asked you.
> I am sorry but I want to take up your time again and ask some more
> questions:
...
> 
> 1) If I specify  an order-only prerequisite, will be 
> evaluated sooner than other normal prerequisites? if yes, why 
> the manual clearly does not say that?
> 
> 2) Instead of "target to be updated" you could say, the 
> command or recipe of the target which is to be executed" as follows:
> 
> If a target has an order-only prerequisite and that 
> order-only prerequisite is a file(or directory) and it is 
> updated(because it may be the target of some other rule 
> itself), the command or recipe of that target will not be executed.
> Did i understand the purpose of the order-only prerequisite?
> Is my sentence more clear than the manual?!!
> 
> Thank you to read my message and sorry to take up the time of 
> all people and user's of the list.