On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you enter a rule:
> xxx/*:
>
> Then xxx/* does not exist, right?
xxx/* is a valid filename (a file with a star as its name). So make
will try to generate this file and execute the associated rules.
I created a small Makefile to demonstrate the problem I solved with the patch:
man.out/*: foo
mkdir man.tmp
touch man.tmp/a
mv man.tmp man.out
foo:
clean:
rm -rf man.tmp man.out
Here is an execution trace:
$ make clean
$ make
mkdir man.tmp
touch man.tmp/a
mv man.tmp man.out
$ find
.
./man.out
./man.out/a
./Makefile
$ make
mkdir man.tmp
touch man.tmp/a
mv man.tmp man.out
$ find
.
./man.out
./man.out/man.tmp
./man.out/man.tmp/a
./man.out/a
./Makefile
$ make
mkdir man.tmp
mkdir: cannot create directory `man.tmp': File exists
make: *** [man.out/a] Error 1
Do you see the problem?
--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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