Re: order-only prerequisites themselves get rebuilt when not needed

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2025-03-08 at 11:34 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote:
> > What confuses me is that since the explicitly requested foo exists
> > and isn't out of date with respect to any non-order-only prereqs (in
> > the example it doesn't have any) and therefore isn't getting rebuilt,
> > I wouldn't expect there to be any need to rebuild it's order-only
> > prereqs either.
>
> That's certainly a reasonable way for it to work, but that's not how it
> works.

Can we change how it works?
i attached a patch here https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?66915.
regards, Dmitry