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Re: Finding second route through rules


From: Luke Shumaker
Subject: Re: Finding second route through rules
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 15:22:24 -0500
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On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 06:56:19 -0500,
Steven Simpson wrote:
> > Besides changing names, I also moved the "correct" branch up, to
> > remove the possibility that it was choosing the "mislead" branch
> > simply because it was listed first, which is what make does if
> > everything else ties.
> 
> I understood that it shouldn't matter anyway, because they're not
> branches from the same point, i.e., they don't have the same target.

You're right that it doesn't matter to Make, but it might matter to
humans trying to understand it :) I just wanted there to be one fewer
thing for someone looking at it to have to think about.

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Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker




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