Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/make

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130306073342.GG4592%apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za@localhost>,
Alan Barrett  <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>Modified Files:
>>      src/usr.bin/make: dir.c job.c job.h make.1 parse.c
>>
>>Log Message:
>>Add a .STALE special target that gets invoked when dependency files contain
>>stail entries.
>
>Please discuss this sort of thing first.  There may be a way to 
>solve the underlying problem without adding a new special target, 
>such as using the newish "meta mode".  Also, a better name than 
>".STALE" might have been suggested.

It is not enabled, so now is a good time to provide alternatives.

christos