Re: FYI: Why META_MODE rebuilds so much for building again after installworld (no source changes)

Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote:
> > > strings `which bmake` | grep META.IGNORE
> > > .MAKE.META.IGNORE_PATHS
> > > .MAKE.META.IGNORE_PATTERNS
> > > ${.MAKE.META.IGNORE_PATHS:O:u:tA}
> > 
> > The -dM output's "is newer than the target" lines
> > show the path from before the above transformation.
> > (The :tA results possibly could use another
> > sort/uniq sequence for the realpath results?)
> 
> That indicates the above IGNOREs are not working.

FWIW I just committed some unit-tests for these.
All working as expected.