gmake has a -q/--question flag that will determine if a rebuild is necessary but not perform it. pmake does not have a similar behavior. I propose we adopt the --question flag with the following behavior:
If any output files would be rebuilt return 1, else return 0.
This covers all use cases that come to my mind. It also avoids overloading the return value heavily.
gmake has a -q/--question flag that will determine if a rebuild is necessary but not perform it. pmake does not have a similar behavior. I propose we adopt the --question flag with the following behavior:
If any output files would be rebuilt return 1, else return 0.
This covers all use cases that come to my mind. It also avoids overloading the return value heavily.