%% "Murali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: m> (1) Now I understand that the PHONY directive should have caused make m> to go into an infinite loop and that gmake somehow recognized and m> prevented this scenario. Still I do not understand how removing the m> PHONY directive fixed the problem
I'm not sure where the confusion lies. Normally after make rebuilds an included makefile it will re-exec itself so that it reads the contents of the rebuilt makefile. If the makefile is declared .PHONY it will never be up-to-date and so make would re-exec infinitely. So to avoid that, if the makefile is PHONY it never re-execs at all, not even once. That's the behavior you were seeing. m> (2) "gmake -d" did not display any information which told me it was m> trying to call itself recursively. Adding this info to the debug m> display would help others and me (in the future) realize something like m> this is a problem. It _wasn't_ trying to call itself recursively, that's why it didn't say it was. If you look at it now you'll see that the debug header information (version info, etc.) is printed in the debug output each time make re-execs itself. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
