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Re: directory search fails!


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: directory search fails!
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:32:08 +0200

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:26:57 -0400
> 
> The concern I have about this is that it describes directory search as
> an operation that happens on prerequisites, but that's not how make
> works.  Make does the directory search on targets.

That's true, but (a) I wasn't the one who started talking about
prerequisites in that section, and (b) the details of the algorithm
are really important only when the target is a prerequisite of some
other target.

I will try to rephrase the text to take care of your concern.



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