> Really? I did not dig up the changelog of the make homepage but the linked post is fairly old (2010) and the make manual gets updated somewhat frequently[1].

> Really? I did not dig up the changelog of the make homepage but the linked post is fairly old (2010) and the make manual gets updated somewhat frequently[1]. Why this was posted and upvoted tho I don't quite understand. It's not some kind of arcane concept barely anybody knew/knows about. The accepted answer doesn't seem to be better than the part in the current manual about it either. [1]: > This is Edition 0.72, last updated 9 October 2013, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNU make version 4.0.