Re: Compiling git with makepp patch

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

>>> GNU make, unlike, say, pmake, reads all the rules before it runs
>>> anything iirc.  So you can have
>>>
>>>   -include foo
>>>
>>>   foo:
>>> 	echo bar:>foo
>>> 	echo '	echo hi'>>foo
>>>
>>> and it will cope okay.
>> While that is not the usual use-case for -include, the file might very
>> well define some macros, and the rest of the makefile, indeed the foo-rule
>> itself might depend on those macros.
>
> GNU make will restart reading all makefiles when any of them was remade.

I am not sure about the "reread" part, but shouldn't all POSIX compliant
make be topology driven (i.e. " reads all the rules before it runs
anything")?