Hello I am using make in a somewhat different manner in that I am using it to keep track of the processing of a lot of images. This worked fine, but when I got too many images, make silently began to behave differently.
I have this rule (the complete rule is not shown) and my problem is that make doesn't assign any path to %.od.txt and %.fovea.txt: $(MASKDIR)/%.cropodmask.hips.bz2: $(REDUCED4DIR)/%.cropreduced4.hips $(MASKDIR)/%.cropmeanmask.hips.bz2 %.od.txt %.fovea.txt echo $(word 1,$^) $(word 2,$^) $(word 3,$^) $(word 4,$^) ;\ ox=`cat $(word 3,$^) | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ oy=`cat $(word 3,$^) | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ fx=`cat $(word 4,$^) | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ fy=`cat $(word 4,$^) | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ Running make: echo /diabvision/tmp/reduced4/1-0493-10.cropreduced4.hips /diabvision/tmp/mask/1-0493-10.cropmeanmask.hips.bz2 ;\ ox=`cat | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ oy=`cat | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ fx=`cat | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ fy=`cat | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ I figured that either make should assign a path to %.od.txt and %.fovea.txt or loudly complain. It does neither. It did work fine when fewer images were present. VPATH points to the folder where .fovea.txt and .od.txt files are placed. If I run the same make like this: make /diabvision/tmp/mask/1-0493-10.cropodmask.hips.bz2 Prerequisites are finished first (also happened in the situation above) and this is the result: echo /diabvision/tmp/reduced4/1-0493-10.cropreduced4.hips /diabvision/tmp/mask/1-0493-10.cropmeanmask.hips.bz2 /diabvision/images/sequence/toke/marking/1-0493-10.od.txt /diabvision/images/sequence/toke/marking/1-0493-10.fovea.txt ;\ ox=`cat /diabvision/images/sequence/toke/marking/1-0493-10.od.txt | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ oy=`cat /diabvision/images/sequence/toke/marking/1-0493-10.od.txt | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ fx=`cat /diabvision/images/sequence/toke/marking/1-0493-10.fovea.txt | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ fy=`cat /diabvision/images/sequence/toke/marking/1-0493-10.fovea.txt | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ Running make with -d shows that make knows what to do: Finished prerequisites of target file `/diabvision/tmp/mask/1-0493-10.cropodmask.hips.bz2'. Must remake target `/diabvision/tmp/mask/1-0493-10.cropodmask.hips.bz2'. echo /diabvision/tmp/reduced4/1-0493-10.cropreduced4.hips /diabvision/tmp/mask/1-0493-10.cropmeanmask.hips.bz2 ;\ ox=`cat | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ oy=`cat | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ fx=`cat | cut -f1 -d\ ` ;\ fy=`cat | cut -f2 -d\ ` ;\ I have approx 250 images. I generate several images and data files from each of them. The entire makefile is approx 19K. make --version GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Report bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I am running RedHat 8. Any idea based on the information so far? regards, Bernhard Ege -- Bernhard Mogens Ege, M.Sc.E.E. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Health Science and Technology Direct call: +45 96 35 87 77 Aalborg University Switchboard: +45 96 35 80 80 Frederik Bajers Vej 7, D1-202 Fax: +45 98 15 40 08 DK-9220 Aalborg East http://www.hst.auc.dk/~bme ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Home: Hadsund Landevej 454, DK-9260 Gistrup, Phone: +45 96365086, +45 51905086 _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make