Re: directory search fails!

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:21:49 -0400
> 
> > and (b) the details of the algorithm are really important only when
> > the target is a prerequisite of some other target.
> 
> Obviously this depends on what you define to be "the details", but I
> don't think that's so: certainly it's important to know that even if you
> run "make a", so that "a" is not a prerequisite of anything else, if "a"
> can be found via directory search then this algorithm is in effect and
> the details of how it works DO make a difference.

Of course.  But that's trivial, and hardly would require a separate
section.  The effect on targets for which this one is a prerequisite
are NOT trivial.  That's what the section tries to explain, AFAIU.