Comment 3 for bug 412465

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Alex Hirzel (alhirzel) wrote :

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.