Subject: Re: bug#12715: coreutils-8.20: bad dependency information with man page generation

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:21:54 +0200

On 10/24/2012 10:25 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> There is also a patch available, but it doesn't seem to have
>> encountered much acceptance unfortunately:
>>
>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-09/msg00132.html>
> 
> The easiest way to solve that is to use order-only dependencies.
>
Which we unfortunately can't do, because they are a GNU make only feature.

Regards,
  Stefano