Re: directory search fails!

[ali hagigat]

Dear Paul, the manual continues as follows:

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4.4.3 How Directory Searches are Performed
4. After processing the prerequisites, the target may or may not need
to be rebuilt:
a. If the target does not need to be rebuilt, the path to the file
found during directory search is used for any prerequisite lists which
contain this target.
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By the steps 1, 2 and 3 the target and its prerequisites have been
replaced with some new path names by directory search. In step 4,
first all prerequisites are built and processed by their new
pathnames. 4.a says: "If the target does not need to be rebuilt", one
scenario is that the file of target exists in the path that directory
search has found, besides the files of prerequisites exist in the
paths that directory search has found.
The manual continues:
'the path to the file found during directory search is used for any
prerequisite lists which contain this target.'
So the path of target is used for all its prerequisites, it is used to
do what? The processing of all of prerequisites have been finished at
the beginning of Step 4!!