Hi Paul, * Paul Smith wrote on Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:15PM CET: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > BTW, while you're here, is there chance for a new GNU make release > > soonish with the bug fixed that prevented GCC from using dependency > > tracking? (IIRC it dealt with order-only deps.) > > Hi Ralf; sorry for the delay.
No worries. > Is this bug already fixed, and just awaiting a release? Or is it still > open? Do you have a bug#? I'm not sure whether it's fixed. I think it's first mentioned here, which also points to some bug numbers: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.patches/158072/focus=159249> > I'm especially interested in packages with very large numbers of targets > and/or variables; so any large-ish package implementing non-recursive > make for example would be useful for testing. > > Any pointers to such packages would be appreciated. You can try GraphicsMagick for a larger nonrecursive build. OpenMPI is large all in all, has many variables, but only parts that are nonrecursive, so I have no idea whether it is a good test for you. > I wanted to do > glibc which is where the memory usage situation was first reported, but > they don't seem to be creating buildable tarballs anymore and my trivial > attempt to run "cvs co", "./configure", and "make" failed miserably :-/. Given that they advertise their CVS tree stability, I think that would qualify for a bug report then. I guess for testing you could try checking out their last release tag though. Cheers, Ralf