Re: Required make version

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Using the order-only prerequisites feature, which is what is failing with the 
> old make version, solves item 1).
> 
> The alternative is your suggestion
> 
>     If the dependencies
>     need to stay as they are, maybe we could avoid the annoyance by having
>     make not print the echo command.
> 
> but I'm not a friend of hiding commands because you don't know what is going 
> on and it will come back to bite you.

How about we use order-only prerequisite only if present, and use the
ugly or undesirable way as fallback?  I see that you can find out if
your Make version supports it by checking .FEATURES.

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